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Semi-Happy

Michael Wood, 22 February 1996

James Whale: A Biography 
by Mark Gatiss.
Cassell, 182 pp., £12.99, July 1995, 0 304 32861 8
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... see what it is asked to believe, and Whale says this, too (I take these and other quotations from Mark Gatiss’s engaging and sympathetic book): ‘I consider the creation of the Monster to be the high spot of the film, because if the audience did not believe the thing has been really made, they would not be bothered with what it was supposed to do ...

Ghost Ions

Jonathan Coe: AA-Rated Memories, 18 August 2022

Offbeat: British Cinema’s Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems 
edited by Julian Upton.
Headpress, 595 pp., £22.99, April, 978 1 909394 93 3
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The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window 
by Rob Young.
Faber, 500 pp., £12.99, August, 978 0 571 28460 3
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... horror films, ghost stories, absurdist comedies and fantasies for children. One way or another – Mark Gatiss can take a lot of the credit here – this new canon has been under construction for more than a decade, and it is only because Young casts his net so wide (taking in John Betjeman’s travel documentaries and the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony ...

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