THE MUMMY in context by Richard Freeman

“…This article examines the literary and cinematic antecedents of a cinema icon, The Mummy, produced by Universal Pictures in 1932.  It looks at the sources in Victorian and Edwardian literature to see if any of the ideas found their way into the film.  …”
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The Incredible Shrinking Man in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: The Film and the Myths by Marie GOURRUT

“…The Incredible Shrinking Man, one of the two “written films” (quoted in Gonzalès 18) that Auster narrates in Report from the Interior, turns the book, as in The Book of Illusions, into a virtual screen, showing how influential the 1957 Universal Pictures production was to fabricate both Auster’s auctorial identity and his various characters’ identities. …”
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