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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452827603321

Autore

Phillips Kendall R

Titolo

Dark directions [[electronic resource] ] : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / / Kendall R. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-88175-5

9786613723062

0-8093-3097-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6164

Soggetti

Horror films - United States - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNISA996383566203316

Autore

Hickes George <1642-1715.>

Titolo

Some discourses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson [[electronic resource] ] : occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the later

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [s.n.], 1695

Descrizione fisica

[16], 88, [10] p

Soggetti

Funeral sermons

Sermons, English - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Attributed to George Hickes. cf. BM.

Errata: p. [10]

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167