Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and
one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic
tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it
finds its home on the cusp between a cinema of sentiment and one of
sensation. Michael Newton's study of the film traces its development
at a time when Hollywood stood poised between the old world and the
new, its dominance threatened by the rise of TV and cultural change,
and the roles played variously by super producer Robert Evans, the
film's producer William Castle, director Polanski and its stars
including Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. Newton's close textual
analysis explores the film's meanings and resonances, and, looking
beyond the film itself, he examines its reception and cultural impact,
and its afterlife, in which Rosemary's Baby has become linked with the
terrible murder of Polanski's wife and unborn child by members of the
Manson cult, and with controversies surrounding the director.
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ISBN
9781844579549
Publisert
2020
Utgave
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Vendor
British Film Institute
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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