If he terror It is a very successful genre, the interest it arouses in historians, critics and essayists is no less. We highlight here three recently published books that address the fascination with horror from different perspectives. Monster show. A cultural history of horror is an essay from 1993, conveniently updated, in which David J. Skala reference on the subject and responsible for books on Tod Browning and Gothic Hollywood, reflects on the social interest in the macabre from Bela Lugosi, Stephen Kingvampirism or body mutation.
In Satan in Hollywood (originally published in 1997 and now returned to bookstores in an expanded version), Jesús Palacios breaks down the satanic influences, voodoo, black magic, mysticism and occultism in classic cinema. Javier Parra delivers his second book on LGTBIQ+ representation of terror, Scream queer 2. Revengein which, with irony and incision, he dissects The possession, hellraiserthe work of Curtis Harrington (night tide) and the aliens horny
The method
Isaac Butler. Alliance. €23.70.
Although questioned by its acting excesses, the Stanislavski method, activated in American theater and film by the Actor’s Studio, has marked all generations of actors since the 1950s, from Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe to Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. . This book documents its history.
Women who drive. The cinema of Agnès Varda
Juan Laborda Barceló. Flint. €19.00.
The only female filmmaker of the new wave It has been on everyone’s lips for a long time. While waiting for the exhibition that the CCCB will dedicate to her starting July 17, this book introduces us to the peculiar fictions and documentary perspective of the director of The gleaners and the gleaner.
Prisoners of the loop
Santiago Alonso and Isabel Sánchez. Applehead Team. €25.60.
Caught in time, or How to Survive Groundhog Day, was, in 1993, a very profitable fantasy comedy that over time has become a cult film about time loops. The authors of this book analyze the film, its impact and narrative influence and interview one of the screenwriters.
Each one on their own and God against everyone
Werner Herzog. Blackie Books. 23.
Filmmaker, writer, traveler and adventurer, the German Werner Herzog constitutes the best example of how to make cinema a permanent challenge. Director of Aguirre, the anger of God In these memories he condenses part of his experiences, remembers his origins and reflects on what it means to make a film.
Alex de la Iglesia
Antonio Santamarina and Jesus Angulo. Chair. €16.10.
The authors of this volume published a book of interviews with Álex de la Iglesia in 2012, so they know the director and his work well. In this case, reconciling analysis and information, they review his career from the early days of killer mirindas until the recent television series 30 coins.
Hawks!
Todd McCarthy. Hatari Books. €47.75.
Generous approach to the work of Howard Hawks, director of My Girl’s Beast, Scarface, Rio Bravo and The eternal dream. As is usual in these texts, exhaustive and well-documented information about the career of this filmmaker who was also a hunter, fisherman and car racer prevails.
Iceberg Borau
Carlos F. Heredero. ECAM, LADY. €29.00.
The author calls the archives of the filmmaker and writer José Luis Borau “treasure grotto”. Once he penetrates into it, thousands of projects appear, unfinished stories, the diary about his trip through the United States, many documents about the exile of Spanish filmmakers in 1939, unpublished letters & mldr;
That was my steak, Valance!
Andrés Rus and Javier Sanabria. Flint. €21.85.
The title of the volume is taken from a famous phrase by The man who killed Liberty Valance, the John Ford film that closes the era of the classic Western. What came next is what this study records, the countercultural influence on the genre reflected in The Shootout, Easy Rider and The heaven’s Door.
Zendaya
Alison James. Rock Editorial. €18.95.
They say he is one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Former Disney teen star, protagonist of the series Euphoriafrom the film saga Dune and the latest films Spider-man. He has earned this full-color biography, with his life, his loves and some things about cinema.
The lords of the scissors
Vicente Romero. Akal. €19.
The subtitle of this work is The cinema that censorship prohibited us from. There has been censorship in all countries, but this text, in journalistic format, investigates what occurred in Franco’s Spain based on the reasons given by the censors and the juggling acts of the directors to sneak their products.
A bright ray of darkness
Ethan Hawke. Berenice. €19.00.
It sounds like the actor’s hidden memoirs about a turbulent and excessive time, when he separated from Uma Thurman. But it is a fictional novel that deals with fame, celebrity, vanity and egos, and how art, in any of its manifestations, can provide anyone with a certain balance.
