The cinema of John Carpenter

Wallflower

2004

X, [220] p.

Director's cuts

9781904764151

Introduction / Ian Conrich and David Woods --1. Disorder in the universe : John Carpenter and the question of genre / Barry Keith Grant --2. Us and them : authority and identity in Carpenter's films / David Woods --3. A siege mentality? : form and ideology in Carpenter's early siege films / Steve Smith --4. Fast and cheap? : the film music of John Carpenter / David Burnand and Miguel Mera --5. Carpenter's widescreen style / Sheldon Hall --6. A spook ride on film : Carpenter and the gothic / Marie Mulvey-Roberts --7. Killing time ... and time again : the popular appeal of Carpenter's horrors and the impact of The Thing and Halloween / Ian Conrich --8. Masculinity, Kurt Russell and the Escape films / Robert Shail --9. From Elvis to L.A. : reflections on the Carpenter-Russell films / Tony Williams --10. Restorative and destructive : Carpenter and maternal authority / Suzie Young --11. Something came leaking out : Carpenter's unholy abominations / Anna Powell --12. Revisionings : repetition as creative nostalgia in the films of John Carpenter / Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz --13. An interview with John Carpenter / Ronald V. Borst

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