Introduction: family assault in the American horror film -- Classical shapes of rage: universal and beyond -- Lewton or "the ambiguities" -- To Psycho and beyond: the Hitchcock connection -- Return of the native: the satanic assaults -- Far from Vietnam: the family at war -- Sacrificial victims -- Chain saw massacres: the apocalyptic dimension -- The return of Kronos -- Poltergeist and Freddy's nightmares -- The King adaptations -- Into the nineties -- Postscript.
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Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-
Title
Hearths of darkness [electronic resource] : the family in the American horror film / Tony Williams.
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Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Edition
New edition.
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Print version: Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11- Hearths of darkness New edition. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628461909 (DLC) 2014014294