03279nam 2200589 a 450 991045282760332120200520144314.01-280-88175-597866137230620-8093-3097-0(CKB)2550000000105087(EBL)1386805(SSID)ssj0000688378(PQKBManifestationID)11405530(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688378(PQKBWorkID)10612544(PQKB)10783847(MiAaPQ)EBC1386805(OCoLC)801407276(MdBmJHUP)muse21192(Au-PeEL)EBL1386805(CaPaEBR)ebr10579703(CaONFJC)MIL372306(OCoLC)858762732(EXLCZ)99255000000010508720110613d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDark directions[electronic resource] Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film /Kendall R. PhillipsCarbondale Southern Illinois University Press20121 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8093-3095-4 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. 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 dualityHorror filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismElectronic books.Horror filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/6164Phillips Kendall R848074MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452827603321Dark directions1933263UNINA