Shock value how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror
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.
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New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
