A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoersrsquo; 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 filmsrsquo; 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 Cravenrsquo;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 the Mouth of Madness; Phillips delves into the directorrsquo;s representations of boundariesmdash;and the haunting consequences for those who cross them.The first volume ever to address these three artists together; Dark Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the horror genre. In analyzing the individual works of Romero; Craven; and Carpenter; Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in horror cinema.
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