Hearths of darkness : the family in the American horror film /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Edition:Updated edition.
Subjects:
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
Families in motion pictures.
Films d'horreur > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Familles au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Families in motion pictures
Horror films
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: family assault in the American horror film
  • Classical shapes of rage: universal and beyond
  • Lewton or "the ambiguities"
  • To Psycho and beyond: the Hitchcock connection
  • Return of the native: the satanic assaults
  • Far from Vietnam: the family at war
  • Sacrificial victims
  • Chain saw massacres: the apocalyptic dimension
  • The return of Kronos
  • Poltergeist and Freddy's nightmares
  • The King adaptations
  • Into the nineties
  • Postscript.

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