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“Almost Psychopathic”: British Working-Class Realism and the Horror Film in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

“Almost Psychopathic”: British Working-Class Realism and the Horror Film in the Late 1950s... “Almost Psychopathic”: British Working-Class Realism and the Horror Film in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s mark jancovich room at the top (1959) wa s rele a sed in even structured as if to isolate these events the United Kingdom only two years after Curse from one another, so that working­class realism of Frankenstein (1957) from the British produc­ is contained within chapter 1, the popular hor­ tion company Hammer. The former was the first ror films of Hammer and others are dealt with film in a “‘new wave’ of working class realism” in chapter 8, and chapter 4 is given over to “the (J. Hill, Sex 2), which is often seen as one of the possibility of constructing a tradition of ‘art major aesthetic achievements of British cin­ cinema’ from among British films” (5), a discus ­ ema, and the latter enjoyed phenomenal com­ sion that includes many of the films that could mercial success and established a new British demonstrate overt crossover or traffic between horror cinema. Given the virtual coincidence realism and horror, films such as The Innocents, between these two cinematic events, it seems The Servant (1963), Night Must Fall (1964), and strange that these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Film and Video University of Illinois Press

“Almost Psychopathic”: British Working-Class Realism and the Horror Film in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s

Jancovich, Mark
Journal of Film and Video , Volume 71 (3) – Dec 4, 2019
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“Almost Psychopathic”: British Working-Class Realism and the Horror Film in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s mark jancovich room at the top (1959) wa s rele a sed in even structured as if to isolate these events the United Kingdom only two years after Curse from one another, so that working­class realism of Frankenstein (1957) from the British produc­ is contained within chapter 1, the popular hor­ tion company Hammer. The former was the first ror films of Hammer and others are dealt with film in a “‘new wave’ of working class realism” in chapter 8, and chapter 4 is given over to “the (J. Hill, Sex 2), which is often seen as one of the possibility of constructing a tradition of ‘art major aesthetic achievements of British cin­ cinema’ from among British films” (5), a discus ­ ema, and the latter enjoyed phenomenal com­ sion that includes many of the films that could mercial success and established a new British demonstrate overt crossover or traffic between horror cinema. Given the virtual coincidence realism and horror, films such as The Innocents, between these two cinematic events, it seems The Servant (1963), Night Must Fall (1964), and strange that these

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Journal of Film and Video – University of Illinois Press

Published: Dec 4, 2019

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