{"product_id":"bela-lugosi-and-the-monogram-9-paperback","title":"BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM 9 (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN  9781629334288\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstyle\u003e\u003c!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\n\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\n\tmso-font-alt:\"ＭＳ 明朝\";\n\tmso-font-charset:128;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\n\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 134217746 0 131231 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536869121 1107305727 33554432 0 415 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"\\@MS Mincho\";\n\tpanose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:128;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:modern;\n\tmso-font-pitch:fixed;\n\tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 134217746 0 131231 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\",serif;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"MS Mincho\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-fareast-language:JA;}\n@page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:.5in .5in .5in .5in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBetween 1941 and 1944, Bela Lugosi\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003estarred in a series of low-budget films released by Monogram Pictures. To many viewers at the time and during the decades that followed, the “Monogram Nine” were overacted and underproduced, illogical and incoherent. But their increasing age has recast such condemnations into appropriate praise: in the 21st\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"RTL\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e century, they seem so different not only from modern cinema, but also from Classical Hollywood, enough so as to make the aforementioned deficits into advantages. The entries in the Monogram Nine are bizarre and strange, populated by crazy, larger-than-life characters \u003c\/span\u003ewho exist in wacky, alternative worlds. In nine films, the improbable chases the impossible. This book, in turn, chases them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“Gary Rhodes has become my favorite nonfiction author, while the subject of some of his writings, Bela Lugosi, has long been one of my favorite actors. Now Gary has teamed up with co-author Robert Guffey to present, for the first time, a collection of in-depth and insightful essays evaluating those lesser ‘classics’ that comprise the so-called ‘Monogram Nine.’ If you are a Lugosi fan and also a fan of old ‘B’ horror films, you will love this book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003e– Donald F. Glut, filmmaker, Marvel Comics writer, and author of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Empire Strikes Back\u003c\/i\u003e novelization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“An extraordinary volume.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eRhodes and Guffey refract these films through the lens of surrealism, detailed genre study, auteurist-informed close readings, star studies, and vigorous historicism to name a few of the kaleidoscope of methods employed. This book provides a breakthrough model for serious work on films that have to date received very little scholarly attention.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e            \u003c\/span\u003e– Michael Lee, Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma), editor at the journal \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHorror Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\"BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM NINE, by Gary Rhodes and Robert Guffey, critically and wonderfully examines a series of no-budget films made by no-budget Monogram Studios in the 1940s featuring Lugosi that are among the most wonderfully odd cinematic follies ever made--surrealistic, straight from the subconscious, sometimes stupid, at moments seeming to spring from the mind of Bunuel, and in the next, an idea Ed Wood would have discarded as too unbelievable. But, movies always unlike any others, and at their best seeming like fever dreams through which Lugosi calmly walks in evening clothes carrying a flaming blowtorch. I highly recommend this book.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e--JACK WOMACK, author of RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE, LET'S PUT THE FUTURE BEHIND US, and ELVISSEY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eReview by James L. 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