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Ladataan... The Mummy in Fact, Fiction and FilmTekijä: Susan D. Cowie
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In 1922, when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen, much of what was then known about mummies came from the writing of Greek historian Herodotus and from the paintings on the walls of Egyptian tombs. Even before 1922, the mummy had been the subject of fiction, with such writers as Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tackling the subject, and early films dating back to 1901. In this work, the authors present the religious, social and scientific aspects of mummies as well as an in-depth discussion of facts about them (largely Egyptian, but including other kinds of mummies). Then, how mummies are portrayed in fiction and in the movies is discussed, and stories and films in which the mummy is a focal character are listed. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The authors cover the 1940s films which feature Kharis as the bandaged guy; unlike Imhotep, Kharis is not his own agent, instead under the control of various neopagan Egyptians, who use “tana leaf” extract to activate him. Once again his main goal is to recover the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess, in this case Ananka. In the 1960s the Hammer studio in England produced a number of mummy films: The Mummy, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, The Mummy’s Shroud, and Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb. These are stand alone, not a series, although the first more or less a remake of several of the Kharis films; it features Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and has reproductions of various Egyptian artifacts so authentic that they keep turning up in other films. Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb is loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel, The Jewel of Seven Stars; there was a reprise in 1997 with Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy. In 1998, The Mummy starred Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss; this copied the 1932 film in featuring Imhotep but his inamorata has a name change to Ankhsunamun.
Similarly the authors have tracked down a number of mummy stories in literature, going all the way back to Khaemwaset, a real person and son of Ramesses II, who acquired a reputation as a magician and turned up in a number later Egyptian stories (it isn’t clear whether Khaemwaset encounters “living mummies” or some other sort of spirit of the dead). There have been numerous stories and novels featuring mummies, the most famous recent one being Anne Rice’s The Mummy, or Ramesses the Damned.
Illustrated with standard depictions of ancient Egypt and stills from the movies; the bibliography is fairly pedestrian, with standard works on ancient Egypt interspersed with books about horror movies. I collect mummy films and novels (even pretty bad ones) and I’m grateful to the authors for tracking down many that I’d never heard of. ( )