The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema

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Contents
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Acknowledgements
Author’s notes
Introduction: Death is only the beginning – Unravelling the Mummy on Screen
Part 1: The Mummy in the West and in Western cinema
Chapter 1: The creature’s features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy movie
The Mummy genre: Interest and Disinterest
Chapter 2: The Mutating Mummy: From ancient artefact to modern attraction
Mummy medicine: An Egyptian prescription
The Mummy as memento: A collectable corpse
The Mummy as public attraction: Exhumed, examined and exhibited
Part 2: The Mummy in literature, on stage and onthe silent screen
Chapter 3: On the page and stage: The Mummy movie’s literary and theatrical influences
The rediscovery of ancient Egypt: A pharaoh to remember
The Mummy’s literary life: Electrifying tales!
Romance and the Mummy: Amorous archaeologists and comely corpses
Literature’s monstrous Mummies: Dread, despair and Doyle
The empire strikes back: Stoker’s Au Revoir to the voyeur archaeologist
Playing dead: The Mummy in the theatre
Chapter 4: Preserved on film: The silent Mummy of early cinema
Egypt and the cinema: Monoliths, mesmerism and Mummies
The ‘Mummy Complex’ and the preservative nature of film
The first on-screen Mummies: Short-lived moments of horror in the trick film
Winding people up: Pretend Mummies and Mummy mix-ups in silent comedies
Mummy dearest: The Mummy as romantic character
Tomb raiders: Egypt and early horror
Teutonic terrors: The first Mummy horror movies
Grave danger: Tutmania, the curse and the death of the silent Mummy
Part 3: Universal studiosand the Mummy of the1930s and 1940s
Chapter 5: The Mummy (1932): Overcoming the silent treatment
The Mummy: Art horror or production line horror?
The delicate horror of The Mummy: A shudder not a shriek!
A dichotomized damsel: A 1920s/1930s Eastern/Western woman
A real lady-killer: The Mummy as Gothic romance
The Mummy and the Nubian: Yellow peril and black brute
Chapter 6: The 1940s Mummy film: A decade of decay
The Mummy returns: The 1940s Mummy as cadaverous copy
More than the sum of its parts: Innovation and the 1940s Mummy
The Mummy’s Hand (1940): Reinventing the Mummy
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942): A memorably murderous Mummy
Lon Chaney Jr.: Cursing the Mummy!
The Mummy in America: Fear and roaming in New England
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944): Escaping bandaged bondage
The Mummy’s Curse (1944): The female Mummy returns
The demise and rise of the Mummy: To buffoon and back again
Part 4: Hammer Film Productions and beyond:The Mummy of the1950s–present
Chapter 7: Hammer’s resurrection of the Mummy: Sex and digs and wrap and roll
Show me the Mummy: Realism with restraint in The Mummy
Culture clash: The Mummy’s case and the aftermath of Suez
Chapter 8: Wrapping up the Mummy: The last sixty years
Bibliography
Index