American Twilight : : The Cinema of Tobe Hooper /

American Twilight : : The Cinema of Tobe Hooper / / ed. by Kristopher Woofter, Will Dodson.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Cherry, Brigid,
DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario,
Dillard, Clayton,
Dodson, Will,
Golden, Anne,
Hawkins, Joan,
Lowenstein, Adam,
Martin, Nina K.,
Metz, Jerry D.,
Olney, Ian,
Schantz, Ned,
Sederholm, Carl H.,
Sharrett, Christopher,
Shea, J.,
Taylor, John Paul,
Thain, Alanna,
Thorn, Mike,
Williams, Tony,
Woofter, Kristopher,
HerausgeberIn:
Dodson, Will,
Woofter, Kristopher,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 50 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION “No Pleasure in Killing”: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
  • PART I HOOPER’S GOTHIC
  • CHAPTER 1 “It’s Better to Be Suggestive:” Gothic Intertextuality and Hybridity in the 1980s Films of Tobe Hooper
  • CHAPTER 2 Poltergeist: TV People and Suburban Rage Monsters
  • CHAPTER 3 Tobe Hooper’s Teenage Wasteland: Youth and Disillusionment in The Funhouse, Invaders from Mars, and Mortuary
  • CHAPTER 4 Salem’s Lot: Tobe Hooper’s Gothic Peyton Place
  • CHAPTER 5 Feeding the Industrial Monster: A Critical Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler
  • CHAPTER 6 Unsettled Architecture and Avant-Garde Strategies in Tobe Hooper’s Down Friday Street, Toolbox Murders, and Djinn
  • PART II EMBODIMENT
  • CHAPTER 7 Nightmare Images: Tobe Hooper on Horror and Aging
  • CHAPTER 8 Experimental Sorcery in Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells
  • CHAPTER 9 Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile
  • CHAPTER 10 “Sex or the Saw, Boy, What’s It Gonna Be?”: Tobe Hooper’s Anxious Men
  • CHAPTER 11 Bad Touches: Spontaneous Combustion in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Family
  • PART III PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
  • CHAPTER 12 Can(n)onical Hooper: A Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s Golan- Globus Films
  • CHAPTER 13 Hooper’s Hollywood: Investigating Occult Spaces in Toolbox Murders
  • CHAPTER 14 Songs in the Key of Death: Tobe Hooper’s “Dancing with Myself ” and “Dance of the Dead”
  • CHAPTER 15 The Past Infects the Present: Abjection and Identity in Tobe Hooper’s 1990s TV and Video Productions
  • CHAPTER 16 “Get Back to Work!”: Critiquing the Hollywood-Industrial Complex in The Mangler
  • PART IV THE AMERICAN TWILIGHT
  • CHAPTER 17 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Begins
  • CHAPTER 18 Tobe Hooper and the American Twilight
  • APPENDIX Cross-Referenced Tobe Hooper Filmography
  • REFERENCES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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