Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / Kendall R. Phillips

Date :

Editeur / Publisher : Carbondale (Ill.) [etc] : Southern Illinois University Press , cop. 2012

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-8093-3095-9

ISBN : 0-8093-3095-4

EAN : 9780809330959

Romero -- George A. -- 1940-2017 -- Critique et interprétation

Craven -- Wes -- 1939-2015 -- Critique et interprétation

Carpenter -- John -- 1948-.... -- Critique et interprétation

Films d'horreur -- États-Unis -- 1960-1990

Films d'horreur -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020

Classification Dewey : 791.436 164

Résumé / Abstract : La 4e page de couverture indique : "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"