Shock value : how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror
Title:
Shock value : how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror
Author:
Publication Date:
2011
ISBN:
9781594203022
Physical Description:
274 p.
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Contents:
Devil's advocate -- Problem with Psycho -- Blood brothers -- Assaulting the audience -- Shock or awe -- Monster problem -- Dance of death -- He likes to watch -- Thing in-between -- Stomaching it -- Fear sickness.
Abstract:
Traces the achievements of such influential counter-culture directors as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, and John Carpenter, describing how they incorporated modern politics and gritty realism into their films to reinvent the horror film genre in the 1970s.
