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I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang in Metro (1997) iss.111 p.51
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The chain reaction / Keith Hetherington Melbourne: Unicorn Books, 1980.
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the Chain Reaction [sound recording] : original soundtrack / music by Andrew Thomas Wilson, producer Spencer Lee Australia: 7 Records, 1980?.
Call No: LP The Chain ReactionAuthor: Chopin ; Lee, Spencer ; Mozart ; Wilson, Andrew Thomas Source: ATPlace: AustraliaPublisher: 7 RecordsPubDate: 1980?PhysDes: 1 sound disc (? min): 33 1/3 rpm, 12 inSubject: CHAIN REACTION, THE (AT, Ian Barry, 1980) Contents: -- side one -- awakening / Wilson & Lee -- the beast / Wilson & Lee -- decontamination / Wilson & Lee & & Mozart -- heinrich's theme / Wilson & Lee & Chopin -- waldo / Wilson & Lee -- a swim in the river / Wilson & Lee -- chain reaction / Wilson & Lee -- side two -- once more with feling / Wilson & Lee -- paradise valley / Wilson & Lee -- car chase / Wilson & Lee -- carmel's theme -- Wilson & Lee -- waldo arrives / Wilson & Lee -- the hand at the window / Wilson & Lee -- message to a friend (end titles) / Wilson & Lee --Performer: Andrew Thomas Wilson; Gary Fredericks; Tony Doyle; Paul WheelerMusic Type: Motion Picture MusicPublisher Number: 7 Records: MLF 360
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CHAIN, THE : (US, Jack Gold, 1985)
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Fantasy and the cinema / edited by James Donald London: BFI Pub., 1989.
Call No: 735 FANAuthor: Donald, James Place: LondonPublisher: BFI Pub.PubDate: 1989PhysDes: 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: FANTASTIC FILMS ; FETISHISM IN FILMS ; GERMANY. 1895-1930 ; SLASHER FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; SEX AND THE CINEMA ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; BARTHES, ROLAND ; SVANKMAJER, JAN ; CONDIT, CECELIA ; BAHTIN, MIHAIL ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; DURAS, MARGUERITE ; LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) ; BENEATH THE SKIN (US, Cecelia Condit, 1981) ; CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE [CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS] (G, Robert Wiene, 1920) ; INDIA SONG (FR, Marguerite Duras, 1975) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913) ; TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and indexesISBN: 0851702287; 0851702295 (pbk.)LON: 6190057
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Film and the working class : the feature film in British and American society / Peter Stead London New York: Routledge, 1989.
Call No: 451-058.243 STEAuthor: Stead, Peter Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1989PhysDes: xi, 283 p. ; 24 cmSeries: Cinema and societySubject: WORKING CLASS IN FILMS ; USA ; UNITED KINGDOM ; WARNER BROS. ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 250-272ISBN: 0415027977; 0415065194 (pbk)LON: 6254788
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Graphic violence on the screen / edited by Thomas R. Atkins New York: Monarch Press, c1976.
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Hearths of darkness : the family in the American horror film / Tony Williams Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2014.
Call No: 735.2 WILAuthor: Williams, Tony Edition: Updated ed.Source: USPlace: JacksonPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: c2014PhysDes: Tony WilliamsSubject: ADAPTATIONS. KING, STEPHEN ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; POLTERGEIST (US, Tobe Hooper, 1982) ; POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE (US, Brian Gibson, 1986) ; NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (US, Wes Craven, 1984) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) Summary: Hearths of Darkness traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre
to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far
from being an ephemeral and shortlived genre, horror actually relates to many facets of American history from its beginnings to the present day. Individual chapters examine aspects of the genre, its roots in the Universal horror films of the 1930s, the Val Lewton RKO unit of the 1940s, and the crucial role of Alfred Hitchcock as the father of the modern American horror film. Subsequent chapters investigate the key works of the 1970s by directors such as Larry Cohen, George A. Romero, Brian De Palma, Wes Craven, and Tobe Hooper, revealing the distinctive nature of films such as Bone, It’s Alive, God Told Me, Carrie, The Exorcist, Exorcist 2, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as the contributions of such writers as Stephen King. Tony Williams also studies the slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s, such as the Friday the 13th series, Halloween, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Nightmare on Elm Street, exploring their failure to improve on the radical achievements of the films of the 1970s.
After covering some post-1970s films, such as The Shining, the book concludes with a new postscript examining neglected films of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Despite the overall decline in the American horror film, Williams determines that, far from being dead, the family horror film is still with us. Elements of family horror even appear in modern television series such as The Sopranos. This updated edition also includes a new introduction.-[taken from publishers site]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-346) and indexISBN: 9781628461909Contents: 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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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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Making and remaking horror in the 1970s and 2000s : why don't they do it like they used to? / David Roche Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2014.
Call No: 735.2 ROCAuthor: Roche, David Source: USPlace: JacksonPublisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: c2014PhysDes: vii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; REMAKES ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE [...] (US, 1974-) ; TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Marcus Nispel, 2003) ; TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING, THE (US, Jonathan Liebesman, 2006) ; DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1979) ; DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, Zack Snyder, 2004) ; HILLS HAVE EYES, THE (US, Wes Craven, 1978) ; HILLS HAVE EYES, THE (US, Alexandre Aja, 2006) ; HILLS HAVE EYES PART II, THE (UK/US, Wes Craven, 1986) Summary: An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror moviesNotes: Includes bibliographical references (317-328), filmography and index.ISBN: 9781617039621Contents: Introduction -- Text, subtext, and context -- (Dis)connecting race, ethnicity, and class -- The (dys)functional American nuclear family -- Gender and sexual troubles -- (Re)situating and (re)playing the genre -- Monsters and masks (horror and terror, part 1) -- Strategies and style (horror and terror, part 2) -- Constraints and verisimilitude: a tentative conclusion.
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Masks in Horror cinema : eyes without faces / Alexandra Heller-Nichols Cardiff: University of Wales Press,
Call No: 735.2 HELAuthor: Heller-Nichols, Alexandra Edition: 2019Place: CardiffPublisher: University of Wales PressPhysDes: 288 pages ; 22 cmSubject: SLASHER FILMS ; HORROR FILM ; FRIDAY THE 13TH [...] (US, 1980-) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE [...] (US, 1974-) ; PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925) ; YOU'RE NEXT (US/UK, Adam Wingard, 2011) ; YEUX SANS VISAGE, LES (FR/IT, Georges Franju, 1959) Summary: Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781786834966Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction – Why Masks? Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Chapter One: Situating Masks and Horror Cinema -- Part One: Masks, Horror and Cinema: Towards Codification -- Chapter Two: Masks and Horror in Literary and Performance Traditions and Early Cinema -- Chapter Three: Masks in Horror Film Before 1970 -- Part Two: Horror Film Masks from 1970 -- Chapter Four: Skin Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Chapter Five: Blank Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Chapter Six: Animal Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Chapter Seven: Repurposed Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Part Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies – Moving Forward By Looking Back -- Chapter Eight: Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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Men, women, and chainsaws : gender in the modern horror film / by Carol J. Clover London: B.F.I. Publishing, 1992.
Call No: 735.2 CLOAuthor: Clover, Carol J., 1940 Place: LondonPublisher: B.F.I. PublishingPubDate: 1992PhysDes: 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; SLASHER FILMS ; CRIME IN FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; DEVIL IN FILMS ; ENDINGS OF FILMS ; EXPLOITATION FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; LOOK IN FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; IDENTIFICATION ; REPRODUCTION IN FILMS ; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS ; SUPERNATURAL IN FILMS ; ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988) ; ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92) ; DELIVERANCE (US, John Boorman, 1972) ; EXORCIST, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1973) ; FRIDAY THE 13TH [...] (US, 1980-) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; HILLS HAVE EYES, THE (US, Wes Craven, 1978) ; HUNTER'S BLOOD (US, Robert C. Hughes, 1986) ; MS 45 (US, Abel Ferrara, 1981) ; PEEPING TOM (UK, Michael Powell, 1960) ; POLTERGEIST (US, Tobe Hooper, 1982) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; SCANNERS (CN, David Cronenberg, 1981) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; WITCHBOARD (US, Kevin S. Tenney, 1987) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253) and indexISBN: 0851704190 (pbk.); 0851703313LON: 8882059
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New American teenagers : the lost generation of youth in 1970s film / Barbara Jane Brickman New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012.
Call No: 451-053.6(73) BRIAuthor: Brickman, Barbara Jane Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: c2012PhysDes: ix, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: ROCK FILMS ; MUSICALS. USA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; TEEN FILMS ; BENSON, ROBBIE ; DEAN, JAMES ; FOSTER, JODIE ; BADLANDS (US, Terrence Malick, 1973) ; AMERICAN GRAFFITI (US, George Lucas, 1973) ; FREAKY FRIDAY (US, Gary Nelson, 1977) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; ODE TO BILLY JOE (US, Max Baer, 1976) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) Summary: Looking at 1970s American films that deal with the teen issues with an investigation of previous critical/academic writing on the films and the issues that surround themNotes: Originally published: London: Continuum International Pub. Group Inc., 2012.-- Formerly CIP. -- Includes bibliographical references and index. --
Also issued onlineISBN: 9781628922783Contents: Introduction -- The rock 'n' roll high school picture show: a genre deconstructed -- Coming of age in the 70s: revision, fantasy and rage in the teen-girl badlands -- The queer kid and women's lib -- Bad news Jodie, or how the Disney family got freaky -- Brothers, sisters, and chainsaws: sibling rivalry and peer centrality in the teen slasher film -- Epilogue
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A new deal in entertainment : Warner Brothers in the 1930s / Nick Roddick London: British Film Institute, 1983.
Call No: 19WAR RODAuthor: Roddick, Nick Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1983PhysDes: viii, 332 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: WARNER BROS. ; CRIME FILMS ; RACIAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA ; EPIC FILMS ; LEROY, MERVYN ; WALLIS, HAL B. ; CURTIZ, MICHAEL ; GIBNEY, SHERIDAN ; CAPTAIN BLOOD (US, Michael Curtiz, 1935) ; CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1936) ; DOORWAY TO HELL, THE (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1930) ; MOBY DICK (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1930) ; ROARING TWENTIES, THE (US, Raoul Walsh, 1939) ; SERGEANT YORK (US, Howard Hawks, 1941) ; ANTHONY ADVERSE (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1936) ; BLESSED EVENT (US, Roy del Ruth, 1932) ; G MEN (US, William Keighley, 1935) ; KNUTE ROCKNE - ALL AMERICAN (US, Lloyd Bacon, 1940) ; JUAREZ (US, William Dieterle, 1939) ; LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, THE (US, William Dieterle, 1937) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; SEA WOLF, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1941) ; ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938) ; BLACK FURY (US, Michael Curtiz, 1934) ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (US, Anatole Litvak, 1939) ; DISRAELI (US, Alfred E. Green, 1929) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 320-326ISBN: 0851701256 : ª11.95; 0851701264 (pbk.) : ª6.95LON: 2656181
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Nightmare movies : a critical history of the horror films, 1968-88 / Kim Newman London: Bloomsbury, 1988.
Call No: 735.2 NEWAuthor: Newman, Kim Edition: The new edPlace: LondonPublisher: BloomsburyPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; HORROR FILMS ; ADAMSON, AL ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ALLEN, NANCY ; ARGENTO, DARIO ; BAVA, MARIO ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CARPENTER, JOHN ; CARRADINE, JOHN ; COHEN, LARRY ; CRONENBERG, DAVID ; DE PALMA, BRIAN ; FULCI, LUCIO ; HARPER, JESSICA ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOOPER, TOBE ; KING, STEPHEN ; LEE, CHRISTOPHER ; LEWIS, HERSCHELL GORDON ; LYNCH, RICHARD ; LUCAS, GEORGE ; Perkins, Anthony ; PLEASENCE, DONALD ; ROMERO, GEORGE ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WATERS, JOHN (US) ; ALIEN (UK, Ridley Scott, 1979) ; ALONE IN THE DARK (US, Jack Sholder, 1982) ; AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, AN (UK, John Landis, 1981) ; AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION (US, Damiano Damiani, 1982) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (US, Jean-Francois Richet, 2005) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; COMPANY OF WOLVES, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1984) ; DAY OF THE WOMAN (US, Meir Zarchi, 1978) ; HALLOWEEN (US, John Carpenter, 1978) ; JAWS (US, Steven Spielberg, 1975) ; LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972) ; LOST BOYS, THE (US, Joel Schumacher, 1987) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, Tom Savini, 1990) ; ROSEMARY'S BABY (US, Roman Polanski, 1968) ; ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE (UK, Jim Sharman, 1975) ; SHIVELS (CA, David Cronenberg, 1975) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; TWILIGHT ZONE, THE [TV] (US, 1959-64, 1985-88) ; THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-217) and indexISBN: 0747502951
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Ozploitation [DVD] : Volume 2. [Northcote, Vic]: Umbrella Entertainment, 2008.
Call No: D OZploitationSource: ATPlace: [Northcote, Vic]Publisher: Umbrella EntertainmentPubDate: 2008PhysDes: 6 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 654 min) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inSubject: CHAIN REACTION, THE (AT, Ian Barry, 1980) ; FANTASM (AT, Richard Franklin, 1976) ; FANTASM COMES AGAIN (AT, Colin Eggleston, 1978) ; LONG WEEKEND, THE (AT, Colin Eggleston, 1979) ; RAZORBACK (AT, Russell Mulcahy, 1984) ; STONE (AT, Sandy Harbutt, 1974) ; TRUE STORY OF ESKIMO NELL, THE (AT, Richard Franklin, 1974) Summary: "With the relaxing of censorship laws in the early 1970s, a feast of B-films exploded onto Australian screens as maverick filmmakers served up a diet of murder, mayhem and full frontal nudity in exploitation classics such as Stork, Alvin Purple and Stone. Celebrated in the hit documentary Not Quite Hollywood, six of these 'Ozploitation' genre films are presented here in one post-apocalyptic mash-up of sex, violence and foor-to-the-floor action!" DVD BACK COVERNotes: "DAVID1435"; Includes special features.; Censorship classification: R 18+; In English. No subtitles.Technical Details: PAL ; All regionsAlso Titled: -- Long Weekend -- Razorback -- Fantasm -- Fantasm comes again -- The Chain Reaction -- The true story of Eskimo Nell -- Stone --Standard Number: 3000000070178
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Subversive horror cinema : countercultural messages of films from Frankenstein to the present / Jon Towlson ; foreword by Jeff Lieberman. Jefferson, North Carolina: 2014.
Call No: 735.2 TOWAuthor: Towlson, Jon Source: USPlace: Jefferson, North CarolinaPubDate: 2014PhysDes: vii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; FRANKENSTEIN (US, James Whale, 1931) ; FREAKS (US, Tod Browning, 1932) ; CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942) ; CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, THE (US, Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, 1944) ; NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1968) ; CRAZIES, THE (US, George A. Romero, 1973) ; LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (US, Wes Craven, 1972) ; TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE (US, Tobe Hooper, 1974) ; PARASITE MURDERS, THE (CN, David Cronenberg, 1975) ; DAWN OF THE DEAD (US, George A. Romero, 1979) ; HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, PART 2 (US, Chuck Parello, 1997) ; HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (US, John McNaughton, 1986) ; AMERICAN PSYCHO (US, Mary Harron, 1999) ; TEETH (US, Mitchell Lichtenstein, 2007) Summary: "This book argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror have used the genre to challenge the status quo. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onwards this critical text examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna"-- [Extract taken from the back of the book] --Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued onlineISBN: 9780786474691Contents: Introduction -- Anti-eugenics: Frankenstein (1931) and Freaks (1932) -- anti-1940s home front propaganda: Cat people (1942) and The curse of the Cat people (1944) -- Anti-1950s Cold War conformity: the films of Herman Cohen -- Anti-establishment 1960s-1970s Britain: the films of Michael Reeves and Pete Walker -- Anti-Vietnam: Night of the living dead (1968), Deathdream (1972) and The crazies (1973) -- Anti-Hollywood violence and dark counterculture: Last house on the left (1972) and The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) -- Counterculture revolution: Shivers (1975), Blue Sunshine (1978) and Dawn of the dead (1978) -- Anti-"reaganomics": Henry-portrait of a serial killer (1986) and American psycho (2000) -- Anti-1990s materialism: Brian Yuzna and Splatstick -- Anti-new puritanism: Teeth (2007) and American Mary (2012) -- Afterword: Subversive horror cinema post-9/11.
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