Research Catalog

Title

The films of Wes Craven / edited by Calum Waddell.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

Waddell, Calum

Description

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Series Statement

ReFocus. The American directors series

Uniform Title

ReFocus, the American directors series.

Subject

• Craven, Wes > Criticism and interpretation
• Craven, Wes

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-296), filmography (pages [277]-282), index.

Contents

Part I. The early Wes Craven -- In search of Pandora experimentia / Brian R. Hauser -- Censorship in liberal times? The legacy of Wes Craven's The last house on the left in Germany / Holger Briel -- The hills have eyes as folk horror: a discursive approach / Mikel J. Koven -- "Why are you doing this!?" Flashbacks in Wes Craven's The hills have eyes part II / Will Dodson -- Part II. Freddy Krueger and beyond -- The American nightmare continued: individualism, feminism, and Freddy Krueger / Sinead Edmonds -- The "Nightmare" on Elm Street: the failure and responsibility of those in authority / Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk -- Controlling the souls in the machine: Wes Craven directs the 1985 Twilight zone revival / Matthew Sorrento -- From friends to monsters: the horrors of technology, friendship, and the monsters next door in Wes Craven's Deadly friend / Norberto Gomez, Jr. -- Part III. "Craven" in the mainstream - the "Hollywood" nightmares of Wes Craven -- Self-fulfilling prophecies and metaphysical chastisement in The serpent and the rainbow / James Kloda -- Death is not the end: electric dreams and mass media manipulation in Wes Craven's Shocker / Melody Blackmore -- The people under the stairs at the intersection of Black horror and children's horror / Catherine Lester -- "I'm a whole other thing": The people under the stairs and systemic racism in the Reagan/Bush era / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- A nightmare on video: the terrors of home viewership in Wes Craven's New nightmare / Max Bledstein -- Not quite Blacula: locating Vampire in Brooklyn / Richard Sheppard -- Part IV. Lineage and legacies -- The unlikely urban undertaking: Music of the heart and its curious Craven consistencies / Calum Waddell -- "Blessed be America for letting us dominate and pray the Lord our soul to keep." Wes Craven's legacy in The purge and The purge: anarchy / Erika Tiburcio Moreno -- "How meta can you get?" Scream 4 and Wes Craven's final nightmares / Calum Waddell.

Call Number

MWES (Craven, W.) 23-4220

ISBN

• 9781399507004
• 1399507001
• 9781399507035 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781399507028 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1381124244

Title

The films of Wes Craven / edited by Calum Waddell.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

ReFocus. The American directors series

ReFocus, the American directors series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-296), filmography (pages [277]-282), index.

Added Author

Waddell, Calum, editor, author.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781399507035

Research Call Number

MWES (Craven, W.) 23-4220