After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that Dracula (1931) has been canonised to the detriment of other innovative and original 1930s horror films in Europe and America. By casting out the deified vampire, she reveals a cycle of films made over the 1930s that straddle both the pre- and post-regulatory era of the Hays Production Code an stringent censorship from the British Board of Film Censors. These films are indepenedent and studio productions, literary adaptations, folktales and original screenplays, and include Werewolf of London, The Man Who Changed His Mind, Island of Lost Souls and Vampyr. The book considers the horror genre's international evolution during this period, engaging with a number of European horror films that have hitherto received cursory attention. It focuses on the interplay between Continental, British and transatlantic contexts, and particularly on the intriguing, the obscure and the underrated.

Tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that travel in space and time from Paris to ancient Egypt. This title reveals disparities across horror filmmaking in 1930s and brings to light a cycle of films of which many have been forgotten and unloved.

About the Author
Alison Peirse is Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Northumbria. She has published widely on horror film and television and is co-editor of Korean Horror Cinema (EUP, 2013)


Book Information
ISBN 9781848855311
Author Alison Peirse
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 349g