Scrooge

by Colin Fleming

This Devil's Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hurst's much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the prism of horror cinema, arguing that the film has less in common with cosy festive tradition than it does with terror cinema like James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, Robert Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and F.W. Murnau's Faust. Beginning with Charles Dickens himself, a prolific writer of ghost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800857039
• ISBN13: 9781800857032
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 120 Pages