| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. "No pleasure in killing": the cinema of Tobe Hooper (Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson) -- Hooper's Gothic -- Embodiment -- Production and industry -- The American twilight |
| Summary |
Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hooper nevertheless was instrumental in the development of a robust and deeply political horror genre from the 1960s until his death in 2017. In American Twilight, the authors assert that the director was an auteur whose works featured complex monsters and disrupted America's sacrosanct perceptions of prosperity and domestic security. American Twilight focuses on the skepticism toward American institutions and media and the articulation of uncanny spaces so integral to Hooper's vast array of feature and documentary films, made-for-television movies, television episodes, and music videos. From Egg Shells (1969) to Poltergeist (1982), Djinn (2013), and even Billy Idol's music video for "Dancing with Myself" (1985), Tobe Hooper provided a singular directorial vision that investigated masculine anxiety and subverted the idea of American exceptionalism. -- EbscoHost website |
| Analysis |
Tobe Hooper, horror movies, horror film, horror director, film directors, auteur, auteur cinema, auteur theory, American culture, American exceptionalism, film studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Subject |
Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Hooper, Tobe, 1943-2017 fast |
| Subject |
Horror films -- United States
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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PERFORMING ARTS / General
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Horror films
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United States
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Electronic books
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essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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Essays.
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Essais.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- author, editor, writer of introduction.
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Dodson, Will (Will J.), author, editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781477322840 |
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1477322841 |
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