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Dark directionsRomero, Craven, Carpe...

Carpenter, John, (1948-)

Dark directionsRomero, Craven, Carpenter,and the modern horror film /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dark directionsKendall R. Phillips.
Reminder of title:	Romero, Craven, Carpenter,and the modern horror film /
Author:	Phillips, Kendall R.
Published:	Carbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 215 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Horror filmsHistory and criticism.United States
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780809330973 (electronic bk.)

Dark directionsRomero, Craven, Carpenter,and the modern horror film /
Phillips, Kendall R.

Dark directionsRomero, Craven, Carpenter,and the modern horror film /[electronic resource] :Kendall R. Phillips. - Carbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 215 p.) :ill.

Includes filmography.

Introduction: auteur, genre, and the rhetorics of horror -- Unconstrained bodies in the filmsof 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 -- Desolatefrontiers in the films of John Carpenter. Sites under siege: Dark star, Assault on Precinct 13, Thething, Village of the damned -- Forbidden thresholds: The fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince ofdarkness, In the mouth of madness -- Drifters in desolation: Big trouble in Little China, Vampires,They live, Escape from NewYork, Escape from L.A. -- Conclusion.

ISBN: 9780809330973 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

632504
Carpenter, John,
1948---Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

619853
Horror films
--History and criticism.--United States

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.H6 / P55 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/6164

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