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__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 t

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Author

Kendall R. Phillips

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809330973

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Horror, History

Rating

3.7 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14