Items where Author is "Jancovich, Mark"

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Jancovich, Mark and Brown, Shane Lee (2021) ‘The Mystery Writers Conspire to Make Our Flesh Creep’: Horror, detection and mystery in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. ISSN 2009-0374 (In Press)

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Brown, Shane and Jancovich, Mark (2023) “The finest examples of motion picture art”: Prestige, stardom and gender in silent and early sound horror. Monstrum, 6 (1). pp. 46-75. ISSN 2561-5629

Jancovich, Mark and Brown, Shane Lee (2023) Beauty and the Beast: Romance, reform and mystery in the films of Lon Chaney. Journal of Film and Video, 75 (1). 16–28. ISSN 0742-4671

Jancovich, Mark (2022) Beyond the slasher film:History, seriousness and the problem of the children’s audience in the critical reception of big-budget horror in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Horror Studies, 13 (2). pp. 161-176. ISSN 2040-3275

Jancovich, Mark and Brown, Shane (2022) 'Most stories of this type': Genre, horror and mystery in the silent cinema. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42 (2). pp. 168-190. ISSN 0143-9685

Jancovich, Mark (2022) ‘Peter Brook’s Night of the Living Dead’: Horror, cinema and the post-war theatre. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 15 (1-2). pp. 77-93. ISSN 1753-6421

Jancovich, Mark (2021) Hollywood Gothic, 1930-1960. In: The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-98. ISBN 9781108662017

Hollows, Joanne and Jancovich, Mark (2020) ‘Dwelling at Peace’: Europeanization and the marketing of Alpine tourism in post-war Britain. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23 (3). pp. 385-400. ISSN 1367-8779

Jancovich, Mark (2019) “Almost Psychopathic”: British working class realism and the horror film in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Journal of Film and Video, 71 (3). pp. 3-17. ISSN 0742-4671

Jancovich, Mark (2019) ‘Chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork’: Science fiction, cyclicality and the new dark age during the Cold War. European Journal of American Culture, 38 (3). pp. 255-277. ISSN 1466-0407

Jancovich, Mark (2019) 'Another, more sinister reality': Class, youth and psychopathology from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Endless Night. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 16 (2). pp. 213-232. ISSN 1743-4521

Jancovich, Mark (2017) "Where it Belongs":Television Horror, Domesticity, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In: Horror Television in the Age of Consumption. Routledge, New York, pp. 29-44. ISBN 9781138895652

Jancovich, Mark (2017) Beyond Hammer: the first run market and the prestige horror film in the early 1960s. Palgrave Communications, 3.

Jancovich, Mark (2016) Frankenstein and Film. In: The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 190-204. ISBN 9781107086197

Jancovich, Mark and Manning, Robert (2016) 'A Poisonous Picture':The Big Sleep, The Hollywood Left and the Postwar Thriller. In: Howard Hawks. British Film Institute Publishing, pp. 82-93. ISBN 97818844575411

Jancovich, Mark (2016) Ingrid Bergman. In: Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic. McFarland, Jefferson, pp. 34-37. ISBN 97814776663142

Jancovich, Mark (2015) ‘The theme of psychological destruction’: Horror stars, the crisis of identity and 1940s horror. Horror Studies, 6 (2). pp. 163-175. ISSN 2040-3275

Jancovich, Mark (2015) The 1950’s Blockbuster:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Deletion.

Jancovich, Mark (2015) "The Murderer's Mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and the Monstrous Psychologies of the 1940s Horror Film. In: Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema. Lexington Books, Lanham, pp. 161-178. ISBN 9781498503792

Jancovich, Mark (2015) Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s. In: Popular Media Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 91-109. ISBN 978-1-349-46834-8

Jancovich, Mark (2015) "Antique Chiller":Quality, Pretension, and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting. In: Cinematic Ghosts. Bloomsbury Academic, New York, pp. 115-128. ISBN 9781628922141

Jancovich, Mark (2014) “There’s Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script that a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can’t Solve”:Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics. In: The Return of the Epic Film. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748684021

Jancovich, Mark (2014) “Hot Profits out of Cold Shivers!”:Horror, the First Run Market, and the Hollywood Studios, 1938-42. In: Merchants of Menace. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781623564209

Jancovich, Mark (2014) 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins':The Critical Reception of the Twilight Saga. In: Screening Twlight. International Library of the Moving Image . I B Tauris, London, pp. 26-39. ISBN 9781780766652

Jancovich, Mark (2014) Horror in the 1940s. In: A Companion to the Horror Film. Wiley, Oxford, pp. 237-254. ISBN 9780470672600

Jancovich, Mark (2013) ‘It’s about time British actors kicked against these roles in “horror” films’: Horror stars, psychological films and the tyranny of the Old World in classical horror cinema. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 33 (2). pp. 214-233. ISSN 0143-9685

Jancovich, M. (2013) Its about time British actors kicked against these roles in "horror" films:Horror stars, psychological films and the tyranny of the Old World in classical horror cinema. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 33 (2). pp. 214-233. ISSN 0143-9685

Jancovich, Mark (2013) Bluebeard’s Wives: Horror, Quality and the Paranoid Woman’s Film in the 1940s. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (12). pp. 20-43. ISSN 2009-0374

Jancovich, Mark and Brown, Shane (2012) The Screen’s Number One and Number Two Bogeymen”: The Critical Reception of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s and 1940s. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137291776

Jancovich, M. (2012) 'With Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre on their side':German stars, the psychological film and horror. Studies in European Cinema, 9 (2-3). pp. 131-141. ISSN 1741-1548

Jancovich, Mark (2012) “Psychological Thriller”: Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle. In: Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 39-49. ISBN 978-0-230-11450-0

Jancovich, Mark (2012) "A Former Director of German Horror Films”: Horror, European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood Career. In: European Nightmares. Wallflower, pp. 185-193. ISBN 9780231162098

Jancovich, Mark (2012) Relocating Lewton: Cultural distinctions and generic negotiations in the critical reception of the Val Lewton horror films. Journal of Film and Video, 64 (3). pp. 21-37. ISSN 0742-4671

Jancovich, Mark (2012) "Terrifyingly real": Psychology, realism and generic transformation in the demise of the 1940s horror cycle. European Journal of American Culture, 31 (1). pp. 25-39.

Jancovich, Mark (2011) Time, scheduling and cinema-going. Media International Australia, 139 (1). pp. 88-95. ISSN 2200-467X

Jancovich, Mark (2011) Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle. In: Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker. McFarland, pp. 56-69. ISBN 9780786442119

Jancovich, Mark (2011) 'Vicious womanhood'; Genre, the 'femme fatale' and postwar America. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 20 (1). pp. 100-114. ISSN 0847-5911

Jancovich, Mark (2011) "The English Master of Movie Melodrama": Hitchcock, horror and the women's film. Film International, 9 (3). pp. 51-69.

Jancovich, Mark and Johnston, Derek (2011) Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s. In: It Came from the 1950s. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 90-107. ISBN 9780230272217

Jancovich, Mark and Snelson, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-2432 (2011) "No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors": Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. In: The New Cinema History. Blackwells, pp. 199-211.

Jancovich, Mark (2010) Phantom ladies: the war worker, the slacker and the ‘femme fatale’. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 8 (2). pp. 164-178. ISSN 1740-0309

Jancovich, Mark (2010) 'Two ways of looking': Affection and aversion in the critical reception of 1940s horror. Cinema Journal, 49 (3). pp. 45-66. ISSN 0009-7101

Jancovich, Mark (2010) 'An Italianmade Spectacle Film Dubbed in English': Cultural Distinctions, National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Postwar Historical Epic. In: The Epic Film in World Culture. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9780415990189

Jancovich, Mark (2010) "Samuel Bronston’s Latest Epic": Spectacle, heterogeneity and nation in the critical reception of El Cid (1961). Comparative American Studies, 8 (4). pp. 300-315. ISSN 1741-2676

Jancovich, Mark and Snelson, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-2432 (2010) Horror at the Crossroads: Class, Gender and Taste at the Rialto Cinema (Times Square) in the 1940s. In: From the Art House to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century. Scarecrow. ISBN 9780810876545

Jancovich, Mark (2009) "Thrills and Chills": Horror, the Woman’s Film and the Origins of Film Noir. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 7 (2). pp. 157-171. ISSN 1740-0309

Jancovich, Mark (2009) Shadows and Bogeymen: Horror, Stylization and the Critical Reception of Orson Welles during the 1940s. Participations, 6 (1). pp. 1-27.

Jancovich, Mark and Johnson, Derek (2009) Film and TV: the 1950s. In: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge, pp. 71-79. ISBN 041545378X

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Shifting Definitions of Genre. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786434305

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Master of concentrated suspense: Horror, gender and fantasy in Lang’s 1940s films. Studies in European Cinema, 5 (3). pp. 171-183.

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Female monsters: horror, the “femme fatale” and World War II. European Journal of American Culture, 27 (2). pp. 133-149.

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Pale Shadows: Narrative Hierarchies in the History of 1940s Horror. In: Shifting Definitions of Genre. McFarland, pp. 15-32. ISBN 0786434309

Jancovich, Mark (2008) Kulturní geografie filmové konzumpce. Iluminace: Casopis Pro Teorii, Historii a Estetiku Filmu, 1. pp. 15-35.

Denison, Rayna and Jancovich, Mark (2007) Mysterious Bodies (A Special Edition of Intensities Journal). Intensities Journal, 4.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "An Unidentified Species": Horror, The Body and Early Television. Intensities: A Journal of Cult Media, Mysterious Bodies, Special Issue.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) Oh, the Horror. the Guardian Newspaper’s Comment is Free, November 26th.

Jancovich, Mark (2007) The Crack-Up: Psychological Realism, Generic Transformation and the Demise of the Paranoid Woman's Film. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. ISSN 2009-0374

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "Rebecca’s Ghost": Horror, the Gothic and the du Maurier Film Adaptations. In: The Daphne du Maurier Companion. Virago Press, pp. 312-319. ISBN 9781844082353

Jancovich, Mark (2007) "Cinema Comes to Life at the Cornerhouse, Nottingham": "American" Exhibition, Local Politics and Global Culture in the Reception of the Urban Entertainment Center. In: Going to the Movies. Exeter University Press, pp. 383-393. ISBN 0859898121

Jancovich, Mark (2007) Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748619078

Jancovich, Mark (2006) Playboy, Lifestyle and Cold War Culture. In: Historicising Lifestyle. Ashgate Publishing, pp. 70-87. ISBN 0754644413

Jancovich, Mark (2006) The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (reprinted). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521416528

McAllister, Matthew, Gordon, Ian and Jancovich, Mark (2006) Blockbuster meets superhero comic, or art house meets graphic novel? The contradictory relationship between film and comic art. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 34 (3). pp. 108-115. ISSN 0195-6051

Jancovich, Mark (2005) The Meaning of Mystery: Genre, Marketing and the Universal Sherlock Holmes Series of the 1940's. Film International, 3 (17). pp. 34-45.

Jancovich, Mark (2005) Eine fortschrittliche Stadt und ihre Kinos: Technologie, Moderne and das Spektekel de Reichtums. In: Umwidmungen: architektonische und Kinematographische Räume. Vorwerk 8, pp. 230-244. ISBN 3930916703

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Les adolescents et les indépendants: AIP et ses rivaux. Rendez-Vous Avec La Peur: Revue de Cinéma Fantastique, 1. pp. 23-35.

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Bloody Bloody and Bloody Boring: Action, Stasis and Middlebrow Taste in the Reception of the 1950s Spectacular. In: Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge, pp. 84-99. ISBN 0415235073

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Charlton Heston is an Axiom: Spectacle and Performance in the Development of the Blockbuster. In: Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond. Manchester University Press, pp. 51-70. ISBN 0719056454

Jancovich, Mark (2004) Re-examining the 1950s Invasion Narratives (reprint from Rational Fears). In: Liquid Metal: The Science Film Reader. Wallflower Press, pp. 325-336. ISBN 1903364876

Jancovich, Mark and Hunt, Nathan (2004) The Mainstream, Distinctions and Cult TV. In: Cult Television. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 27-44. ISBN 0816638314

Jancovich, Mark (2003) Defining Cult Movies. Manchester University Press. ISBN 071906631X

Jancovich, Mark (2003) Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans. British Film Institute Publishing. ISBN 0851709419

Jancovich, Mark and Faire, Lucy (2003) The Best Place to See a Film: The Blockbuster and the Transformation of Exhibition. In: Movie Blockbusters. Routledge, pp. 190-201. ISBN 0415256097

Jancovich, Mark, Faire, Lucy and Subbings, Sarah (2003) The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption. British Film Institute Publishing. ISBN 0851709427

Jancovich, Mark (2002) Regional Film Theatres Need Clear Local Role. Urban Environment Today, 146. pp. 6-7.

Jancovich, Mark (2002) Cult fictions: Cult movies, subcultural capital and the production of cultural distinctions. Cultural Studies, 16 (2). pp. 306-322. ISSN 1466-4348

Jancovich, Mark and Lyons, James (2002) John Sayles: Independence, Integrity and the Borders of identity. In: 50 Contemporary Film Directors. Routledge, pp. 280-289. ISBN 0415189748

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Placing Sex: Sexuality, Taste and Middlebrow Culture in the Reception of Playboy Magazine. Intensities: A Journal of Cult Media. pp. 1-14.

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Naked ambition: Pornography, Taste and the Problem of the Middlebrow. Scope. ISSN 1465-9166

Jancovich, Mark (2001) A Real Shocker: Authenticity, Genre and the Struggle for Cultural Distinctions. In: The Film Cultures Reader. Routledge, pp. 469-480. ISBN 0415252822

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Genre and the Problem of Reception: Generic Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Promotion of the Silence of Lambs. In: Horror, The Film Reader. Routledge, pp. 150-161. ISBN 0415235626

Jancovich, Mark (2001) Horror, the Film Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0415235626

Jancovich, Mark (2000) "The Purest Knight of All": Nation, History and Representation in El Cid. Cinema Journal, 40 (1). pp. 79-103. ISSN 0009-7101

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Othering Conformity in Post-War America: Intellectuals, the New Middle Classes and the Problem of Cultural Distinctions. In: Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America. Birmingham University Press, pp. 12-28. ISBN 1902459067

Jancovich, Mark (2000) The Southern New Critics. In: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-218. ISBN 0521300126

Jancovich, Mark (2000) A Real Shocker: Authenticity, Genre and the Struggle for Cultural Distinctions. Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 14 (1). pp. 23-35. ISSN 1030-4312

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Genre and the Problem of Reception: Generic Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Promotion of Silence of the Lambs. In: Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences. BFI Publishing, pp. 33-44. ISBN 978-0851708102

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Cult Film and Television. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Consumption. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (2000) Moral Panics. In: Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415162180

Jancovich, Mark (1998) Horror (Japanese Translation). Seikya-sha, Tokyo. ISBN 978-0713468205

Jancovich, Mark (1996) Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-0719036248

Jancovich, Mark (1995) Screen Theory. In: Approaches to Popular Film. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 121-150. ISBN 071904393X

Jancovich, Mark and Hollows, Joanne (1995) Introduction: Popular Film and Cultural Distinctions. In: Approaches to Popular Film. Manchester University Press, pp. 1-14. ISBN 071904393X

Jancovich, Mark (1993) The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521416523

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Modernity and Subjectivity in The Terminator: The Machine as Monster in Contemporary American Culture. The Velvet Light Trap, 30. pp. 3-17. ISSN 0149-1830

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Serial Killers and Female Heroes: Re-examining the Slasher Movie. Over Here, 12 (1). pp. 67-74.

Jancovich, Mark (1992) David Morley, the Nationwide Studies. In: Reading into Cultural Studies. Routledge, pp. 134-147. ISBN 0415063779

Jancovich, Mark (1992) Horror. Batsford Cultural Studies . B T Batsford Ltd, Batsford. ISBN 9780713468205

Jancovich, Mark (1991) Robert Penn Warren as New Critic: Against Propaganda and Irresponsibility. The Southern Literary Journal, XXIV (1). pp. 53-65.

Jancovich, Mark (1990) Contemporary Communications and the Restructuring of Social, Political and Economic Life: Challenges and Problems of American Communications Studies. Over Here, 10 (1). pp. 62-69.

Jancovich, Mark (1990) An Introduction to the American Horror Novel Since 1945: Ten Key Novels. MOCS: The Magazine of Cultural Studies, 1. pp. 12-13.