TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neibaur,James L.
TI  - The monster movies of Universal Studios
SN  - 1538183897
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Universal City Studios
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Monster films
KW  - Horror films
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index
N2  - In 1931, Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box-office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new film, Universal cemented its place in the Hollywood firmament as the leading producer of horror films, a status it enjoyed for more than twenty years. In The Monster Movies of Universal Studios, James L. Neibaur reviews the key horror films produced by the studio from the early 1930s through the mid-1950s. For each film, the author recounts the movie's production, provides critical commentary, considers the film's commercial reception, and offers an overall assessment of the movie's significance. Neibaur also examines the impact of these films on popular culture, an influence that resonates in the cinema of fear today--back cover
ER  -