how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror /
Jason Zinoman
New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Press,
2011
274 pages, [8] pages of plates :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and index
The Devil's advocate -- The problem with Psycho -- Blood brothers -- Assaulting the audience -- Shock or awe -- The monster problem -- The dance of death -- He likes to watch -- The thing in-between -- Stomaching it -- The fear sickness
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Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, "New York Times" film critic Zinoman delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age--the 1970s, when such directors as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and Brian De Palma redefined the genre
Horror films-- United States-- History and criticism