Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition.

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Authors and Corporations: Williams, Tony
published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
©2014.
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (371 pages)
ISBN: 9781626740600
Edition: 1st ed.
Language: English
Subjects:
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
Families in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Print version:: Williams, Tony, Hearths of Darkness, Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,c2014
Collection: E-Books adlr
Table of Contents

A thorough study of a movie genre that reached its cultural zenith in the 1970s but remains influential today.
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the New Edition
1. Introduction: Family Assault in the American Horror Film
2. Classical Shapes of Rage: Universal and Beyond
3. Lewton or "The Ambiguities
4. To Psycho and Beyond: The Hitchcock Connection
5. Return of the Native: The Satanic Assaults
6. Far from Vietnam: The Family at War
7. Sacrificial Victims
8. Chain Saw Massacres: The Apocalyptic Dimension
9. The Return of Kronos
10. Poltergeist and Freddy's Nightmares
11. The King Adaptations
12. Into the Nineties
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles
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