Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012.
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N791.43616/36
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English
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xi, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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...
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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012.
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Illinois
Date Published
c2012.
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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 Dar...
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Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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c2012.
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N791.43616/36
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74Vvg6Rr74WX
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ISBN
0809330970 (ebook)
9780809330959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809330954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780809330973 (ebook)
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791.436164
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991012208449702626
