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Dark Directions - Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
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Dark Directions - Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
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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 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.
The first volume ever to address these three artists together, Dark
Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the
horror genre. In analyzing the individual works of Romero, Craven,
and Carpenter, Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in
horror cinema.
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