Making and remaking horror in the 1970s and 2000s : why don't they do it like they used to? / David Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, David, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Horror films.

Film remakes.

United States.

Film remakes--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

335 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Making and remaking horror in the nineteen seventies and two thousands

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Summary:

In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s, author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more "disturbing" and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this "disturbing" quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Text, subtext, and context

(Dis)connecting race, ethnicity, and class

The (dys)functional American nuclear family

Gender and sexual troubles

(Re)situating and (re)playing the genre

Monsters and masks (horror and terror, part 1)

Strategies and style (horror and terror, part 2)

Constraints and verisimilitude: a tentative conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Roche, David, 1976- Making and remaking horror in the 1970s and 2000s

ISBN:

9781617039621

1617039624

OCLC:

856861088