David J. Skal

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el mundo secreto de Tod Browning, maestro de lo macabro en el cine de Hollywood

El carnaval de las tinieblas

A portrait of Tod Browning is based on family documents and interviews with friends and colleagues and offers insight into his secret obessive world

The Secret World of Tod Browning--Hollywood's Master of the Macabre

Dark Carnival

American Film Institute

Kenneth White Munden

The American Film Institute Catalog has won great praise for its comprehensiveness, reliability, and utility. These volumes are an essential purchase for every library, and individual researchers will also find them indispensable. This newest AFI volume contains over 4,300 entries for feature-length films produced in the United States in the 1940s. The decade was an important and transitional one for filmmakers. Societal changes from the war years were reflected in films, and in the late 1940s the rise of television, the Hollywood blacklist, and the breakup of studio-owned theater chains greatly affected the number and types of films produced. Among films newly viewed for the book are such well-known classics as Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Casablanca, along with less heralded films such as Fighting Men of the Plains and The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler. Entries include complete cast and crew credits, extensive plot summaries, and notes and sources for further study. A large accompanying volume provides access to the films through nine separate indexes, including personal and corporate names, subjects, and genres.

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