{"product_id":"horror-and-mystery-photoplay-editions-thomas-mann-9781629330723","title":"Horror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations, Volume II (hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotoplay editions were movie tie-in books that reprinted the novels on which films were based, illustrated with photos from the movies. Sometimes the novels were newly-created, based on scripts of the films, with publication timed to correspond with the films' release. Comparable fictionizations of contemporary movies frequently appeared in short-story form within many popular movie magazines. Volume I of this catalog (2004) listed over 500 such tie-in stories connected to horror, mystery, science fiction, and related genre films. The present volume updates that list with hundreds of additional entries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his Introduction the author also provides a detailed analysis of some of the individual works, showing how many of the published stories, based on advance copies of the film scripts, contain scenes deleted from the release prints. As he did with the book volumes in Volume I, here in Volume II he also provides a fascinating analysis of the film magazines in their larger context as cultural artifacts of bygone eras.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book concludes with a reprint of a previously unknown short story version of the lost Lon Chaney film, \u003cem\u003eA Blind Bargain\u003c\/em\u003e (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Mann is an independent scholar living in Washington, D.C., where he spent over three decades as a general reference librarian in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Guide to Library Research\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1629330728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629330723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BearManor Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Thomas Mann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896879538431,"sku":"9781629330723","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/horror-and-mystery-photoplay-editions-thomas-mann-9781629330723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}