Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips revea...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: auteur, genre, and the rhetorics of horror
- Unconstrained bodies in the films of George Romero. The body as contrast: Romero's Living dead
- The body as site of struggle: The crazies, Monkey shines, The dark half, Bruiser
- Romero's mythic bodies: Martin and Knightriders
- Gothic dimensions in the films of Wes Craven. Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters
- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker
- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left
- Desolate frontiers in the films of John Carpenter. Sites under siege: Dark star, Assault on Precinct 13, The thing, Village of the damned
- Forbidden thresholds: The fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince of darkness, In the mouth of madness
- Drifters in desolation: Big trouble in Little China, Vampires, They live, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A.
- Conclusion.