Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Phillips, Kendall R. (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Dark directions [Texte imprimé] : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips
Publication : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xi, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Includes filmography
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
Sujet(s) : Romero, George A. (1940-2017) -- Critique et interprétation
Craven, Wes (1939-2015) -- Critique et interprétation
Films d'horreur -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 164 (23e éd.) = Cinéma d'horreur
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780809330959 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0809330954 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780809330973 (ebook). - ISBN 0809330970 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42708849f
Notice n° :
FRBNF42708849
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
