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Halloween - Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up (Hardcover)
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Halloween - Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up (Hardcover)
Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures
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This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most
influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in
the history of youth cinema. John Carpenter's 1978 horror hit was
once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was
regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American
slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have
challenged Halloween's comfortable place in the canon of youth
horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no
other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled
youth horror cinema since the 1950s-Gothic atmosphere, atomic
dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monsters-and ties
them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on
Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique
of social institutions and their failure to protect young people.
Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling and complicated youth
characters: teenage babysitters watching over preadolescents as a
killer, who is viciously avoiding the responsibilities of young
adulthood, stalks them through the shadows. This book explores all
these aspects of Halloween, including the franchise it spawned,
providing an invaluable insight into this iconic film for students
and researchers alike.
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