Author : Peter Hutchings
Release : 2017-06-01
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Terence Fisher by : Peter Hutchings
Download or read book Terence Fisher written by Peter Hutchings. This book was released on 2017-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.