Dark Directions Romero Craven Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film 1st Edition by Kendall Phillips ISBN 0809330954 9780809330959

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0809330954

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0809330959

Author: Kendall R. Phillips

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 between society and chaos, concluding that the unconstrained bodies of the Living Dead films act as a critical intervention into social norms. Phillips then explores the shadowy worlds of director Wes Craven. In his study of the films The Serpent and the Rainbow, Deadly Friend, Swamp Thing, Red Eye, and Shocker, Phillips reveals Craven’s vision of technology as inherently dangerous in its ability to cross the gossamer thresholds of the gothic. Finally, the volume traverses the desolate frontiers of iconic director John Carpenter. Through an exploration of such works as Halloween, The Fog, and In the Mouth of Madness, Phillips delves into the director’s representations of boundaries—and the haunting consequences for those who cross them.

Dark Directions Romero Craven Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Unconstrained Bodies in the Films of George Romero

1. The Body as Contrast: Romero’s Living Dead

2. The Body as Site of Struggle: The Crazies, Monkey Shines, The Dark Half, Bruiser

3. Romero’s Mythic Bodies: Martin and Knightriders

Part Two: Gothic Dimensions in the Films of Wes Craven

4. Craven’s Gothic Form: Nightmares, Screams, and Monsters

5. Gothic Technologies: The Serpent and the Rainbow, Deadly Friend, Swamp Thing, Red Eye, Shocker

6. Gothic Families: The People under the Stairs, The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left

Part Three: Desolate Frontiers in the Films of John Carpenter

7. Sites under Siege: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Village of the Damned

8. Forbidden Thresholds: The Fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness

9. Drifters in Desolation: Big Trouble in Little China, Vampires, They Live, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A.

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