Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film /
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.