The Mummy on Screen - Glynn, Basil

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Acknowledgements
Author's Notes



Introduction:
Death is Only the Beginning: Unravelling the Mummy on Screen

Section 1: The Mummy in the West and Western Cinema

1. The Creature's Features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy Movie
The Oriental Mummy as Western Projection
The Mummy Genre: Interest and Disinterest

2.The Mutating Mummy: From Ancient Artefact to Modern Attraction
Mummy Medicine: An Egyptian Prescription
The Mummy as Memento: A Collectible Corpse
The Mummy as Public Attraction: Exhumed, Examined and Exhibited

Section II: The Mummy in Literature, on Stage and the Silent Screen

3.On the Page and Stage: The Mummy Movie's Literary and Theatrical Influences
The Mummy's Tome: A Body of Literature
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

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

Section III: Universal Studios and the Mummy of the 1930s and 1940s

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

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

Section IV. Hammer Studios and Beyond: The Mummy of the 1950s-Present

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

8. Wrapping up the Mummy: The Last 60 Years

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