TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Kendall R.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Dark directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film 
AV  - PN1995.9.H6 P55 2012
U1  - 791.43/6164 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Romero, George A.
KW  - Craven, Wes
KW  - Carpenter, John,
KW  - Horror films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes filmography; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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