02527nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10579703 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110613s2012 ilua sbq 001 0deng d 2011024180 9780809330959 (pbk. alk. paper) 0809330954 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780809330973 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)801407276 n-us--- PN1995.9.H6 P55 2012eb 791.43/6164 23 Phillips, Kendall R. Dark directions [electronic resource] : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. xi, 215 p. : ill. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Romero, George A. Criticism and interpretation. Craven, Wes Criticism and interpretation. Carpenter, John, 1948- Criticism and interpretation. Horror films United States History and criticism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579703 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 187769 187769