{"product_id":"the-mummy-on-screen-9781350194830","title":"The Mummy on Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mummy has long been neglected in horror criticism as a stiff and lifeless movie monster. But The Mummy on Screen finds a beating heart beneath the bandages. With exhaustive research and deft analysis, Basil Glynn lifts the shroud on the mummy and finds a fascinating and malleable monster whose mute body nonetheless speaks volumes about the Orientalist imagination. -- Andrew Scahill, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver, USA\u003cbr\u003eIf the Mummy has enjoyed considerably less critical attention or regard than its fellow movie undead, Basil Glynn rectifies that neglect in this persuasive reappraisal, tracing the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet in an authoritative and illuminating study of an enduring and deceptively versatile movie monster. -- Leon Hunt, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel University, UK\u003cbr\u003eGlynn not only shows us the origins of the shambling terror … he takes us on an intellectually thrilling tour of the orientalist assumptions western audiences bring to the fictional mummy. Glynn will make you wonder why you ever cared so much about zombies and vampires in this accessible and brilliant examination of a truly terrifying monster that, until now, has never been given its due. Beware the mummy’s curse! But read this book anyway. -- W. Scott Poole, Professor of History, College of Charleston, USA and author of Monsters in America and Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror\u003cbr\u003eGlynn's observation that the Mummy has 'stalked . . . its way through the movies, largely unappreciated by critics, academics and cultural commentators' is an astute, if unfortunate one. Just as the Mummy is often without voice in the cinema, the same may largely be said of its presence in academic literature. Glynn’s book isn’t just welcome: it’s essential. The Mummy, as Glynn points out, is perhaps the cinema’s most lucrative yet (paradoxically) unappreciated teratological figure. The Mummy on Screen's legibility and wealth of research will make it indispensably useful. Undergraduate students will love it—graduate students will appreciate its accessibility; professors will wish they had written it. -- John Edgar Browning, Georgia Institute of Technology, author and editor of Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics, The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker, and Dracula in Visual Media\u003cbr\u003eThe time has come to understand and embrace the Mummy’s ongoing cultural relevance. Glynn unwraps the archetypal Mummy's relentless trajectory from ancient artefact to modern attraction! -- Victoria McCollum, Lecturer in Cinematic Arts, Ulster University, Northern Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Author’s Notes       Introduction: Death is Only the Beginning: Unravelling the Mummy on Screen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Section 1: The Mummy in the West and Western Cinema   1. The Creature’s Features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy Movie                     The Oriental Mummy as Western Projection                                               The Mummy Genre: \u003cb\u003eInter\u003c\/b\u003eest and \u003cb\u003eDisinter\u003c\/b\u003eest                                              2.The Mutating Mummy: From Ancient Artefact to Modern Attraction               Mummy Medicine: An Egyptian Prescription                                                The Mummy as Memento: A Collectible Corpse                                          The Mummy as Public Attraction: Exhumed, Examined and Exhibited             Section II: The Mummy in Literature, on Stage and the Silent Screen   3.On the Page and Stage: The Mummy Movie’s Literary and Theatrical Influences  The Mummy’s Tome: A Body of Literature                                                             The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: A Pharaoh to Remember                        The Mummy’s Literary Life: Electrifying Tales!                                          Romance and the Mummy: Amorous Archaeologists and Comely Corpses      Literature’s Monstrous Mummies: Dread, Despair and Doyle                         The Empire Strikes Back: Stoker’s \u003ci\u003eAu Revoir\u003c\/i\u003e to the Voyeur Archaeologist     Playing Dead: The Mummy in the Theatre                                                   4. Preserved on Film: The Silent Mummy of Early Cinema                                           Egypt and the Cinema: Monoliths, Mesmerism and Mummies            The ‘Mummy Complex’ and the Preservative Nature of Film                        The First On-Screen Mummies: Short-lived Moments of Horror in the  Trick Film Winding People Up: Pretend Mummies and Mummy Mix-ups in Silent Comedies                                                                                                          Mummy Dearest: The Mummy as Romantic Character                                 Tomb Raiders: Egypt and Early Horror                                                      Teutonic Terrors: The First Mummy Horror Movies                                      Grave Danger: Tutmania, the Curse and the Death of the Silent Mummy        Section III: Universal Studios and the Mummy of the 1930s and 1940s   5. The Mummy (1932): Overcoming the Silent Treatment                                            ‘The Mummy:’ Art Horror or Production Line Horror?                                The Delicate Horror of ‘The Mummy:’ A Shudder not a Shriek!                    A Dichotomized Damsel: A 1920s\/1930s Eastern\/Western Woman                A Real Lady-Killer: “The Mummy” as Gothic Romance                               The Mummy and the Nubian: Yellow Peril and Black Brute                            6. The 1940s Mummy Film: A Decade of Decay                                                          The Mummy Returns: The 1940s Mummy as Cadaverous Copy                     More than the Sum of Its Parts: Innovation and the 1940s Mummy                ‘The Mummy’s Hand’  (1940): Reinventing the Mummy                              ‘The Mummy’s Tomb’ (1942): A Memorably Murderous Mummy                  Lon Chaney Jr.: Cursing the Mummy!                                            The Mummy in America: Fear and Roaming in New England                        “The Mummy’s Ghost (1944):” Escaping Bandaged Bondage                       “The Mummy’s Curse (1944):” The Female Mummy Returns           The Demise and Rise of the Mummy: To Buffoon and Back Again   Section IV. Hammer Studios and Beyond: The Mummy of the 1950s-Present   7. Hammer’s Resurrection of the Mummy: Sex and Digs and Wrap and Roll                  Show Me the Mummy: Realism with Restraint in ‘The Mummy’                     Culture Clash: The Mummy’s Case and the Aftermath of Suez                      8. Wrapping up the Mummy: The Last 60 Years                                                                                                                                                                   Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019636048215,"sku":"9781350194830","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350194830.jpg?v=1750780858","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mummy-on-screen-9781350194830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}