Cat People

Cat People

by Kim Newman
Cat People

Cat People

by Kim Newman

Paperback(2nd ed. 2013)

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Overview

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Released in 1943, Cat People was the first production from the unit set up by RKO to make low-cost, high-return horror movies. Producer Val Lewton was handed the title and ordered to come up with a film to fit. He and director Jacques Tourneur created an innovative picture about a Serbian emigree in New York (Simone Simon) who's convinced she's suffering from a hereditary curse that will transform her into a panther if her passions are aroused.
Kim Newman positions this 74-minute classic in terms of the horror film genre from which it emerges and against which it rebels. Through close analysis, he teases out the layers of meaning and intent that make this at once a supernatural drama and an unusual psychological study.

Author Biography: Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction has been translated into many languages and he is a past recipient of, among others, the Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Critics' Guild Award for Best Novel. He is also the editor of The BFI Companion to Horror.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781844576432
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 11/08/2013
Series: BFI Film Classics Series
Edition description: 2nd ed. 2013
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Kim Newman is a novelist, film critic, broadcaster and journalist. He is editor of The BFI Companion to Horror (1997), Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader (2002) and author of the BFI TV Classic on Doctor Who (2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 'Cat People'.- Afterword: The Curse of the Cat People.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.
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