Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-310) and indexes
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
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Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film is the first major book-length study of the family horror film. Far from being a marginal or nonexistent element in the horror genre, as some critics argue, author Tony Williams states that it is really one of the genre's most important features
Families in motion pictures
Horror films-- United States-- History and criticism
Famille au cinéma
Films d'horreur - États-Unis - Histoire et critique