Nightmares in Red, White and Blue The Evolution of the American Horror Film

Name: Nightmares in Red, White and Blue The Evolution of the American Horror Film
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ISBN: 9780786418602

ISBN-10: 0786418605

ISBN-13: 9780786418602

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph Maddrey

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What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer-they're one of the best measures of the American consciousness. From an early fascination with the Gothic, to the mutant horrors of the Atomic Age and alien enemies of the Cold War, to the inner demons of the psyche and the American Dream turned nightmare, the history of American horror films is a reflection of changing American cultural attitudes and values-and the fears that accompany them. This survey of the pivotal horror films produced in America examines the history of the genre as a reflection of cultural changes in the United States. It begins with an exploration of the origins of the genre, and follows its…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 5/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface



American Gothic in Film



You Must Become Caligari: German Expressionism and the Origins of Film Gothic



A New World of Gods and Monsters: Hollywood Studio Horrors of the 1930s



Shadow Play: Hitchcock, Film Noir and the Val Lewton Cycle



Bad Kids, Big Bugs, Body Snatchers and the Bomb



The Monster Is Madness: Castle, Corman and California Gothic



Apocalypse America: The Modern Horror Film



What the Fifty Foot Woman Did to the Incredible Shrinking Man



Selling the American Dream: The Postmodern Horror Film (Part I)



Old Monsters, New Flesh: The Postmodern Horror Film (Part II)



Reality Bites: The New American Film Gothic



Auteurs



Tod Browning: Sideshows



Alfred Hitchcock: Noir Town



Roger Corman: Counterculture and Creature Features



George A. Romero: The Fall of Camelot



John Carpenter: Space-Age Cowboys



Larry Cohen: Outside in America



David Lynch: American Beauty?



Wes Craven: The New Myths


Filmography


Notes


Bibliography


Index