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- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
- ISSN
- 1934-6018
Abstract
dawn keetley and gwen hofmann although david archainbaud’s T hir teen article stakes a claim, then, for the place of Thirteen Women within the horror tradition—in Women (1932) has earned brief mention in several compendia of horror films, it has never deed, for its shaping of that tradition—it argues received extended analysis. In an insightful re that the film was ahead of its time, partaking as view of the DVD, which was released as part of much of post 1960s horror as of classic horror. the Warner Archive Collection in 2012, John Bei Based on the best selling novel by Tiffany fuss notes that Thirteen Women is “not exactly Thayer, Thirteen Women was produced by a horror film,” yet he goes on to map its numer David O. Selznick for R. K. O. Radio Pictures ous “horror themes,” drawing a line from Ar and was released in September 1932. Like so chainbaud’s film to both Friday the 13th (Sean many subsequent horror films, Thirteen Women S. Cunningham, 1980) and the Final Destination features a vengeful killer stalking members We argue that despite franchise (2000–11). of a sorority, all of whom attended St. Albans Beifuss’s hedging, Thirteen Women is in
Journal
Journal of Film and Video – University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 9, 2016