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Title: TERENCE FISHER
By: Peter Hutchings
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0719056373
ISBN 13: 9780719056376
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Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 14 March, 2002
Series: British Film-Makers
Pages: 208
Description: This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history -- .
Synopsis: 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 busy twenty-five-year career, he directed fifty 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. Looking at Fisher's career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a film-maker but also casts a new, interesting light on the areas in which he worked - Gainsborough melodrama, the 1950s B film, 1960s science-fiction and, of course, Hammer, one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema. -- .
Illustrations: Illustrations, black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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