5 options
Dark directions [electronic resource] : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Kendall R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Romero, George A--Criticism and interpretation.
- Romero, George A.
- Craven, Wes--Criticism and interpretation.
- Craven, Wes.
- Carpenter, John, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.
- Carpenter, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers' psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films' directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film. Phillips begins by analyzing the works of George Romero, focusing on how the body is used cinematically to reflect the duality
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-88175-5
- 9786613723062
- 0-8093-3097-0
- OCLC:
- 801407276
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.