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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation (Hardcover)
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation (Hardcover)
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Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social
climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in
the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam. When Tobe Hooper's
low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in
theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and
reverence. The film-in which a group of teenagers meet a gruesome
end when they stumble upon a ramshackle farmhouse of psychotic
killers-was outright banned in several countries and was pulled
from many American theaters after complaints of its violence.
Despite the mixed reception from critics, it was enormously
profitable at the domestic box office and has since secured its
place as one of the most influential horror movies ever made.
Joseph Lanza transports the reader back to the tumultuous era of
the 1970s defined by political upheaval, cultural disillusionment,
and the perceived decay of the nuclear family in the wake of
Watergate, the onslaught of serial killers in the US, as well as
mounting racial and sexual tensions. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
and Its Terrifying Times sets the themes of the film against the
backdrop of the political and social American climate to understand
why the brutal slasher flick connected with so many viewers. As
much a book about the movie as the moment, Joseph Lanza has created
an engaging and nuanced work that grapples with the complications
of the American experience.
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