Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Tod Browning's last film Miracles for Sale (1939), using magic and the occult, is discussed in the context of the genre of detective film. Based on Death from a Top Hat (1938), the novel of Clayton Rawson famous for his blending of the criminal and the supernatural, it introduces The Great Merlini, an amateur detective, a connoisseur of magic tricks, but an unbeliever in the occult, who helps the New York City police solve "impossible" crimes involving rooms locked from inside, mysterious escapes and vanishing murder weapons. The essay compares the film with the original novel, finding proofs that Rawson found inspiration in earlier Browning films, especially The Thirteenth Chair (1929); these allusions had to vanish in the film version, as it would look as if Browning were copying himself. The film is interpreted as the third part of a loose "detective trilogy" as well as another, "occult trilogy." The study also provides a comparison with the adaptation of another

Název v anglickém jazyce

Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult

Popis výsledku anglicky

Tod Browning's last film Miracles for Sale (1939), using magic and the occult, is discussed in the context of the genre of detective film. Based on Death from a Top Hat (1938), the novel of Clayton Rawson famous for his blending of the criminal and the supernatural, it introduces The Great Merlini, an amateur detective, a connoisseur of magic tricks, but an unbeliever in the occult, who helps the New York City police solve "impossible" crimes involving rooms locked from inside, mysterious escapes and vanishing murder weapons. The essay compares the film with the original novel, finding proofs that Rawson found inspiration in earlier Browning films, especially The Thirteenth Chair (1929); these allusions had to vanish in the film version, as it would look as if Browning were copying himself. The film is interpreted as the third part of a loose "detective trilogy" as well as another, "occult trilogy." The study also provides a comparison with the adaptation of another

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Rok uplatnění

2008

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath

ISBN

978-0-7864-3447-3

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

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Počet stran knihy

241

Název nakladatele

McFarland

Místo vydání

Jefferson, NC, USA

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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