Cat People
By (Author) Kim Newman
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
BFI Publishing
25th October 2013
2nd ed. 2013
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
791.4372
Paperback
96
Width 135mm, Height 190mm
Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious horror. The new edition includes a postscript about the sequel, The Curse of the Cat People.
Kim Newman is a novelist, film critic, broadcaster and journalist. He is editor of The BFI Companion to Horror (1997), Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader (2002) and author of the BFI TV Classic on Doctor Who (2005).