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The American twilight : the cinema of Tobe Hooper / edited by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- author, editor, writer of introduction.
- Dodson, Will (Will J.), author, editor, writer of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hooper, Tobe.
- Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017.
- Horror films--United States.
- Horror films.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction. "No pleasure in killing": the cinema of Tobe Hooper / Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson
- Part I. Hooper's gothic. "It's better to be suggestive:" gothic intertextuality and hybridity in the 1980s films of Tobe Hooper / Brigid Cherry
- Poltergeist: TV people and suburban rage monsters / Joan Hawkins
- Tobe Hooper's teenage wasteland: youth and disillusionment in The funhouse, Invaders from Mars, and Mortuary / Kristopher Woofter
- Salem's Lot: Tobe Hooper's gothic Peyton Place / Tony Williams
- Feeding the industrial monster: a critical reconsideration of Tobe Hooper's The mangler / Carl Sederholm
- Unsettled architecture and avant-garde strategies in Tobe Hooper's Down Friday Street, Toolbox murders and Djinn / Anne Golden and Kristopher Woofter
- Part II. Embodiment. Nightmare images: Tobe Hooper on horror and aging / Adam Lowenstein
- Experimental sorcery in Tobe Hooper's Eggshells / Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
- Lizard brain ouroboros: human anti-exceptionalism in Tobe Hooper's Eaten alive and Crocodile / Mike Thorn
- "Sex or the saw, boy, what's it gonna be?": Tobe Hooper's anxious men / Will Dodson
- Bad touches: spontaneous combustion in the aftermath of the nuclear family / Alanna Thain
- Part III. Production and industry. Can(n)onical Hooper: a reconsideration of Tobe Hooper's Golan-Globus films / Ian Olney
- Hooper's Hollywood: investigating occult spaces in Toolbox murders (2004) / Nina K. Martin
- Songs in the key of death: Tobe Hooper's "Dancing with myself" and Dance of the dead / Jerry D. Metz
- The past infects the present: abjection and identity in Tobe Hooper's 1990s TV and video productions / John Taylor
- "Get back to work!": critiquing the Hollywood industrial complex in The mangler / Clayton Dillard
- Part IV. The American twilight. The Texas chain saw massacre begins / J. Shea and Ned Schantz
- Afterword: Tobe Hooper and the American twilight / Christopher Sharrett
- Cross-referenced Tobe Hooper filmography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781477322840
- 1477322841
- Publisher Number:
- 40030595656
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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