- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press; illustrated edition edition (14 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719056373
- ISBN-13: 978-0719056376
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 927,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including "The Curse of Frankenstein", "Dracula" and "The Devil Rides Out". But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a 25 year career, he directed 50 films, not just horrors but also thrillers, comedies, melodramas, and science-fiction. This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history. Fisher was a low-budget film-maker, largely unnoticed by critics and having little control over the projects he was assigned. That he managed to fashion something distinctive from such limited resources is a testament to his ablities, something that proved invaluable in the development of Hammer horror in the late 1950s.
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The Man Behind Hammer Horror, 5 Jan 2004
By Michael Samerdyke - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Terence Fisher (British Film Makers) (Paperback)
This is a remarkably enjoyable book. Hutchings writes in a very accessible style, although he points out the various theories of popular film that inform his approach to the career of Terence Fisher, director of Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula.I could not put the book down. Hutchings makes the twists and turns of Fisher's career quite compelling, even when he discussed Fisher grinding out cheapo crime films I have no chance of seeing. Best of all, of course, is the discussion of the Hammer horror films. Hutchings takes the films seriously and points out levels of complexity there that have been breezed over by most commentators.
Strongly recommended for anyone with an interest in Hammer and British horror. Essential reading.
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Impressive Study of a Neglected British Director, 22 Feb 2007
By Shaun Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Terence Fisher (British Film Makers) (Paperback)
Over the last 15 years Peter Hutchings has carved himself a productive niche as a strong academic voice supporting the much maligned British horror film. The academic weight Hutchings brings has also coincided with a larger academic interest in the horror genre (building on the trailblazing theoretical work of the 1970's). Hutchings crucially is also very readable and accessible, this study of Terence Fisher, is not the arid academic text one could easily assume it might be. Fisher's career is large and the other study of his talents "Charms of Evil" written by Wheeler Winston Dixon has been out of print for years, so this affordable, pocket sized guide is an indispensable guide to one of British cinema's unsung talents. Naturally there is a heavy bias towards Fisher's 1957-64 Hammer heyday, but Hutchings also explores to varying degrees of success his work with Gainsborough, his career in the B picture support slot (in which he first worked for Hammer with "Stolen Face") and his brief but interesting interlude into science-fiction for Planet Productions. Hutchings concludes that it is difficult to consider Fisher an auteur because of this career diversity and suggests that industrial conditions are as important to moulding a director's personal style as is their own passions. What is important here is that academia is finally giving much needed attention to some of the key figures in one of British cinema's most enduringly popular of genres.
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