Phillips, Kendall R. <br/><br/>
Dark directions  Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film /  [electronic resource] : 
Kendall R. Phillips. 
 - Carbondale :  Southern Illinois University Press,  2012. 
 - xi, 215 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780809330973 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Romero, George A.--Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Craven, Wes--Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Carpenter, John, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Horror films--History and criticism.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.H6  / P55 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43/6164