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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012

1 online resource (xi, 215 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780809330973 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0809330954 (pbk. alk. paper)

ISBN 9780809330959 (pbk. alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes filmography

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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