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New. Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Freaks (1932), and Mad Love (1935) against early-twentieth-century disability discourse and propaganda on racial and biological purity, Smith showcases classic horror's dependence on the narratives of eugenics and physiognomics. She also notes the…
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Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema Hardcover - 2012
by Angela Smith
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- Title Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema
- Author Angela Smith
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2012-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780231157162 / 0231157169
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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- Aspects (Academic): Film
- Library of Congress subjects Horror films - History and criticism, People with disabilities in motion pictures
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011040542
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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