Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Rosemary's Baby

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 136

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Film Institute

Release: May 28, 2020

ISBN: 1844579522

ISBN 13: 9781844579525

Rosemary's Baby

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 136

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Film Institute

Release: May 28, 2020

ISBN: 1844579522

ISBN 13: 9781844579525

More books from Michael Newton

West of the Big River: Boxed Set of Eight Western Novels

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Blaze! Western Series: Six Adult Western Novels

3.9/5 ( ratings)

2016 Serial Killers True Crime Anthology

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Silent Rage: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Skinwalker: A Western Horror Novel

3.7/5 ( ratings)

2017 Serial Killers True Crime Anthology

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Dark Strangler: Earle Leonard Nelson

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers

Doomsday Disciples

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: A Study of the Chilling Criminal Phenomenon from the Angels of Death to the Zodiac Killer (Facts on File Crime Library)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Iron Curtain Killers: "Serial Murder in Soviet Russia" (World Serial Killers by Country Book 1)

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 "Unsolved in North America"

Pele's Fire

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rosemary's Baby (BFI Film Classics)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Anatomie van Fitness- en Krachttraining

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.2 No.6 "Fatal Fetishists II"

Under Western Stars: Stories by the Western Fictioneers

Rate this book!

Write a review?