Mark Jancovich

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• 2023

  Beauty and the Beast: Romance, reform and mystery in the films of Lon Chaney

  Jancovich, M. & Brown, S. L., 1 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Film and Video. 75, 1, p. 16–28 13 p.

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• “The finest examples of motion picture art”: Prestige, stardom and gender in silent and early sound horror

  Brown, S. & Jancovich, M., Jun 2023, In: Monstrum. 6, 1, p. 46-75 30 p.

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• 2022

  Beyond the slasher film: History, seriousness and the problem of the children’s audience in the critical reception of big-budget horror in the late 1970s and early 1980s

  Jancovich, M., Oct 2022, In: Horror Studies. 13, 2, p. 161-176 16 p.

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• 'Most stories of this type': Genre, horror and mystery in the silent cinema

  Jancovich, M. & Brown, S., Apr 2022, In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 42, 2, p. 168-190 23 p.

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• ‘Peter Brook’s Night of the Living Dead’: Horror, cinema and the post-war theatre

  Jancovich, M., 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance. 15, 1-2, p. 77-93 17 p.

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• 2021

  Hollywood Gothic, 1930-1960

  Jancovich, M., Aug 2021, The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Spooner, C. & Townsend, D. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 80-98 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• ‘The Mystery Writers Conspire to Make Our Flesh Creep’: Horror, detection and mystery in the late 1920s and early 1930s

  Jancovich, M. & Brown, S. L., 6 Aug 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.

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• 2020

  ‘Dwelling at Peace’: Europeanization and the marketing of Alpine tourism in post-war Britain

  Hollows, J. & Jancovich, M., May 2020, In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. 23, 3, p. 385-400 16 p.

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• 2019

  'Another, more sinister reality': Class, youth and psychopathology from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Endless Night

  Jancovich, M., 1 Apr 2019, In: Journal of British Cinema and Television. 16, 2, p. 213-232 20 p.

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• ‘Chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork’: Science fiction, cyclicality and the new dark age during the Cold War

  Jancovich, M., Sep 2019, In: European Journal of American Culture. 38, 3, p. 255-277 23 p.

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• “Almost Psychopathic”: British working class realism and the horror film in the late 1950s and early 1960s

  Jancovich, M., 23 Sep 2019, In: Journal of Film and Video. 71, 3, p. 3-17 15 p.

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• 2017

  Beyond Hammer: the first run market and the prestige horror film in the early 1960s

  Jancovich, M., 18 Apr 2017, In: Palgrave Communications. 3, 17028.

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• "Where it Belongs": Television Horror, Domesticity, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents

  Jancovich, M., 17 Nov 2017, Horror Television in the Age of Consumption : Binging on Fear. Jackson, K. & Belau, L. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, p. 29-44 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2016

  'A Poisonous Picture': The Big Sleep, The Hollywood Left and the Postwar Thriller

  Jancovich, M. & Manning, R., Apr 2016, Howard Hawks: New Perspectives. Brookes, I. (ed.). British Film Institute Publishing, p. 82-93 12 p. 4

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Frankenstein and Film

  Jancovich, M., Aug 2016, The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein. Smith, A. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 190-204

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• Ingrid Bergman

  Jancovich, M., 2016, Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others. McCarthy, E. & Murphy, B. M. (eds.). Jefferson: McFarland, p. 34-37 4 p. 6

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2015

  "Antique Chiller": Quality, Pretension, and History in the Critical Reception of The Innocents and The Haunting

  Jancovich, M., 2015, Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era. Leeder, M. (ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 115-128 14 p.

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• The 1950’s Blockbuster: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

  Jancovich, M., Aug 2015, In: Deletion. 10.

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• "The Murderer's Mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and the Monstrous Psychologies of the 1940s Horror Film

  Jancovich, M., 2015, Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade. Degiglio-Bellemare, M., Ellbe, C. & Woofter, K. (eds.). Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 161-178 17 p. 9

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• Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s

  Jancovich, M., 2015, Popular Media Cultures: Fans, Audiences and Paratexts. Geraghty, L. (ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 91-109 19 p.

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• ‘The theme of psychological destruction’: Horror stars, the crisis of identity and 1940s horror

  Jancovich, M., 1 Oct 2015, In: Horror Studies. 6, 2, p. 163-175 13 p.

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• 2014

  'Cue the Shrieking Virgins': The Critical Reception of the Twilight Saga

  Jancovich, M., 2014, Screening Twlight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon. Clayton, W. & Harman, S. (eds.). London: I B Tauris, p. 26-39 2. (International Library of the Moving Image).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Horror in the 1940s

  Jancovich, M., 2014, A Companion to the Horror Film. Benshoff, H. (ed.). Oxford: Wiley, p. 237-254 18 p. 14

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

• “Hot Profits out of Cold Shivers!”: Horror, the First Run Market, and the Hollywood Studios, 1938-42

  Jancovich, M., 2014, Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema. Nowell, R. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• “There’s Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script that a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can’t Solve”: Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics

  Jancovich, M., 2014, The Return of the Epic Film: Genre, Aesthetics and History in the 21st Century. Elliot, A. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Bluebeard’s Wives: Horror, Quality and the Paranoid Woman’s Film in the 1940s

  Jancovich, M., 2013, In: Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. 12, p. 20-43 24 p.

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• Its about time British actors kicked against these roles in "horror" films: Horror stars, psychological films and the tyranny of the Old World in classical horror cinema

  Jancovich, M., 2013, In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 33, 2, p. 214-233 20 p.

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• ‘It’s about time British actors kicked against these roles in “horror” films’: Horror stars, psychological films and the tyranny of the Old World in classical horror cinema

  Jancovich, M., 1 Jun 2013, In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 33, 2, p. 214-233 10 p.

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• 2012

  "A Former Director of German Horror Films”: Horror, European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood Career

  Jancovich, M., May 2012, European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945. Allmer, P., Huxley, D. & Brick, E. (eds.). Wallflower, p. 185-193 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Relocating Lewton: Cultural distinctions and generic negotiations in the critical reception of the Val Lewton horror films

  Jancovich, M., 2012, In: Journal of Film and Video. 64, 3, p. 21-37 17 p.

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• "Terrifyingly real": Psychology, realism and generic transformation in the demise of the 1940s horror cycle

  Jancovich, M., 2012, In: European Journal of American Culture. 31, 1, p. 25-39 15 p.

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• The Screen’s Number One and Number Two Bogeymen”: The Critical Reception of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s and 1940s

  Egan, K. (ed.), Thomas, S. (ed.), Jancovich, M. & Brown, S., 6 Nov 2012, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 16 p.

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  9 Citations (Scopus)

• 'With Conrad Veidt and Peter Lorre on their side': German stars, the psychological film and horror

  Jancovich, M., 1 Sep 2012, In: Studies in European Cinema. 9, 2-3, p. 131-141 11 p.

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  2 Citations (Scopus)

• “Psychological Thriller”: Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle

  Jancovich, M., 3 Jul 2012, Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology. Browning, J. E. & Picart, C. J. S. (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 39-49 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2011

  Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s

  Jancovich, M. & Johnston, D., 2011, It Came from the 1950s. McCarthy, E. & Murphy, B. M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 90-107 18 p.

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  1 Citation (Scopus)

• "No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors": Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s

  Jancovich, M. & Snelson, T., 2011, The New Cinema History. Biltereyst, D., Meers, P. & Maltby, R. (eds.). Blackwells, p. 199-211 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  11 Citations (Scopus)

• Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle

  Jancovich, M., 2011, Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker. McNally, K. (ed.). McFarland, p. 56-69 14 p.

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• "The English Master of Movie Melodrama": Hitchcock, horror and the women's film

  Jancovich, M., 2011, In: Film International. 9, 3, p. 51-69 19 p.

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• Time, scheduling and cinema-going

  Jancovich, M., May 2011, In: Media International Australia. 139, 1, p. 88-95 8 p.

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  6 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Vicious womanhood'; Genre, the 'femme fatale' and postwar America

  Jancovich, M., 2011, In: Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 20, 1, p. 100-114 15 p.

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  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  'An Italianmade Spectacle Film Dubbed in English': Cultural Distinctions, National Cinema and the Critical Reception of the Postwar Historical Epic

  Jancovich, M., 2010, The Epic Film in World Culture. Burgoyne, R. (ed.). New York: Routledge

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• Horror at the Crossroads: Class, Gender and Taste at the Rialto Cinema (Times Square) in the 1940s

  Jancovich, M. & Snelson, T., 2010, From the Art House to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century. Cline, J. & Weiner, R. G. (eds.). Scarecrow

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• Phantom ladies: the war worker, the slacker and the ‘femme fatale’

  Jancovich, M., Jun 2010, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 8, 2, p. 164-178 15 p.

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  10 Citations (Scopus)

• "Samuel Bronston’s Latest Epic": Spectacle, heterogeneity and nation in the critical reception of El Cid (1961)

  Jancovich, M., 2010, In: Comparative American Studies. 8, 4, p. 300-315 16 p.

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• 'Two ways of looking': Affection and aversion in the critical reception of 1940s horror

  Jancovich, M., 2010, In: Cinema Journal. 49, 3, p. 45-66 22 p.

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  12 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  Film and TV: the 1950s

  Jancovich, M. & Johnson, D., 2009, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Bould, M., Butler, A. M., Roberts, A. & Vint, S. (eds.). Routledge, p. 71-79 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Shadows and Bogeymen: Horror, Stylization and the Critical Reception of Orson Welles during the 1940s

  Jancovich, M., May 2009, In: Participations. 6, 1, p. 1-27 27 p.

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• "Thrills and Chills": Horror, the Woman’s Film and the Origins of Film Noir

  Jancovich, M., Jun 2009, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 7, 2, p. 157-171 15 p.

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• 2008

  Female monsters: horror, the “femme fatale” and World War II

  Jancovich, M., 2008, In: European Journal of American Culture. 27, 2, p. 133-149 17 p.

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• Kulturní geografie filmové konzumpce

  Jancovich, M., 2008, In: Iluminace: Casopis Pro Teorii, Historii a Estetiku Filmu. 1, p. 15-35 21 p.

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