
Dark Directions
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Content
- Intro
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Auteur, Genre, and the Rhetorics of Horror
- Part One: Unconstrained Bodies in the Films of George Romero
- 1. The Body as Contrast: Romero's Living Dead
- 2. The Body as Site of Struggle: The Crazies, Monkey Shines, The Dark Half, Bruiser
- 3. Romero's Mythic Bodies: Martin and Knightriders
- Part Two: Gothic Dimensions in the Films of Wes Craven
- 4. Craven's Gothic Form: Nightmares, Screams, and Monsters
- 5. Gothic Technologies: The Serpent and the Rainbow, Deadly Friend, Swamp Thing, Red Eye, Shocker
- 6. Gothic Families: The People under the Stairs, The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left
- Part Three: Desolate Frontiers in the Films of John Carpenter
- 7. Sites under Siege: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Village of the Damned
- 8. Forbidden Thresholds: The Fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness
- 9. Drifters in Desolation: Big Trouble in Little China, Vampires, They Live, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A.
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Author Bio
- Back Cover
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