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Introduction: auteur, genre, and the rhetorics of horror -- Unconstrained bodies in the filmsof George Romero. The body as contrast: Romero's Living dead -- The body as site of struggle: The crazies, Monkey shines, The dark half, Bruiser -- Romero's mythic bodies: Martin and Knightriders -- Gothic dimensions in the films of Wes Craven. Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters -- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker -- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left -- Desolatefrontiers in the films of John Carpenter. Sites under siege: Dark star, Assault on Precinct 13, Thething, Village of the damned -- Forbidden thresholds: The fog, Ghosts of Mars, Halloween, Prince ofdarkness, In the mouth of madness -- Drifters in desolation: Big trouble in Little China, Vampires,They live, Escape from NewYork, Escape from L.A. -- Conclusion |