Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. "No pleasure in killing": the cinema of Tobe Hooper / Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson -- Part I. Hooper's gothic. "It's better to be suggestive:" gothic intertextuality and hybridity in the 1980s films of Tobe Hooper / Brigid Cherry -- Poltergeist: TV people and suburban rage monsters / Joan Hawkins -- Tobe Hooper's teenage wasteland: youth and disillusionment in The funhouse, Invaders from Mars, and Mortuary / Kristopher Woofter -- Salem's Lot: Tobe Hooper's gothic Peyton Place / Tony Williams -- Feeding the industrial monster: a critical reconsideration of Tobe Hooper's The mangler / Carl Sederholm -- Unsettled architecture and avant-garde strategies in Tobe Hooper's Down Friday Street, Toolbox murders and Djinn / Anne Golden and Kristopher Woofter -- Part II. Embodiment. Nightmare images: Tobe Hooper on horror and aging / Adam Lowenstein -- Experimental sorcery in Tobe Hooper's Eggshells / Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare -- Lizard brain ouroboros: human anti-exceptionalism in Tobe Hooper's Eaten alive and Crocodile / Mike Thorn -- "Sex or the saw, boy, what's it gonna be?": Tobe Hooper's anxious men / Will Dodson -- Bad touches: spontaneous combustion in the aftermath of the nuclear family / Alanna Thain -- Part III. Production and industry. Can(n)onical Hooper: a reconsideration of Tobe Hooper's Golan-Globus films / Ian Olney -- Hooper's Hollywood: investigating occult spaces in Toolbox murders (2004) / Nina K. Martin -- Songs in the key of death: Tobe Hooper's "Dancing with myself" and Dance of the dead / Jerry D. Metz -- The past infects the present: abjection and identity in Tobe Hooper's 1990s TV and video productions / John Taylor -- "Get back to work!": critiquing the Hollywood industrial complex in The mangler / Clayton Dillard -- Part IV. The American twilight. The Texas chain saw massacre begins / J. Shea and Ned Schantz -- Afterword: Tobe Hooper and the American twilight / Christopher Sharrett -- Cross-referenced Tobe Hooper filmography.
Summary:
"Texan filmmaker Tobe Hooper is best remembered for his iconic film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, though he also directed Poltergeist, the TV miniseries Salem's Lot, and the Billy Idol video for "Dancing with Myself," in addition to dozens of other films and television programs. Woofter and Dodson have put together the first comprehensive English-language examination of Hooper's oeuvre, with 17 essays by a range of scholars. They examine what Hooper's disparate works have in common and whether they share a unified aesthetic--a "dark political vision of a degenerative America." Looking at films, programs, and videos from all stages of his career--from Eggshells, his first film in 1968, to his last, Djinn, in 2013--they situate Hooper within the American horror genre"-- Provided by publisher.
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