Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film Phillips, Kendall R. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. ilu Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 2012 monographic eng

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xi, 215 p. : ill. 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. Kendall R. Phillips. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- Romero, George A Criticism and interpretation Craven, Wes Criticism and interpretation Carpenter, John 1948- Criticism and interpretation Horror films United States History and criticism PN1995.9.H6 P55 2012eb 791.43/6164 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579703 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579703 CaPaEBR 110613 ebr10579703