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Hearths of Darkness : The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626740600
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hearths of DarknessDDC classification:
  • 791.43/61640973
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 -- .W46 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the New Edition -- 1. Introduction: Family Assault in the American Horror Film -- 2. Classical Shapes of Rage: Universal and Beyond -- 3. Lewton or "The Ambiguities -- 4. To Psycho and Beyond: The Hitchcock Connection -- 5. Return of the Native: The Satanic Assaults -- 6. Far from Vietnam: The Family at War -- 7. Sacrificial Victims -- 8. Chain Saw Massacres: The Apocalyptic Dimension -- 9. The Return of Kronos -- 10. Poltergeist and Freddy's Nightmares -- 11. The King Adaptations -- 12. Into the Nineties -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the New Edition -- 1. Introduction: Family Assault in the American Horror Film -- 2. Classical Shapes of Rage: Universal and Beyond -- 3. Lewton or "The Ambiguities -- 4. To Psycho and Beyond: The Hitchcock Connection -- 5. Return of the Native: The Satanic Assaults -- 6. Far from Vietnam: The Family at War -- 7. Sacrificial Victims -- 8. Chain Saw Massacres: The Apocalyptic Dimension -- 9. The Return of Kronos -- 10. Poltergeist and Freddy's Nightmares -- 11. The King Adaptations -- 12. Into the Nineties -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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