Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film /

Main Author: Phillips, Kendall R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10579703
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245 1 0 |a Dark directions  |b Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film /  |c Kendall R. Phillips. 
260 |a Carbondale :  |b Southern Illinois University Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xi, 215 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
600 1 0 |a Romero, George A.  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Craven, Wes  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Carpenter, John,  |d 1948-  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
650 0 |a Horror films  |x History and criticism.  |z United States 
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