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Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
Kendall R Phillips
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809330959
SKU
V9780809330959
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