{"product_id":"american-twilight-the-cinema-of-tobe-hooper-paperback-softback-9781477329467","title":"American Twilight; The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477329467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Cinema of Tobe Hooper\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKristopher Woofter (Edited by), Will Dodson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e, Hooper is given the attention he deserves as a contributor to the canon of horror as a genre for his exploration of an 'America in crisis.'\u003c\/div\u003e (No Film School) \u003cdiv\u003e[Tobe Hooper's] subversive and fascinating body of work…is given its due in editors Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e…[Hooper is] an artist who-lacking unlimited Hollywood resources-still found ways to mine his obsessions late into his fraught career...Those who agree will find \u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight \u003c\/i\u003eindispensable.\u003c\/div\u003e (Film International) \u003cdiv\u003e[A] well-edited collection of essays...[\u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a nice mixture of close readings of individual or small groups of [Tobe Hooper's] films and discussions of the machinations of the film and television industry and its relationship to the auteur in the period from 1974 to 2006. If one of the editors' goals was to encourage readers to see Hooper’s less-known works, they certainly succeed...All of the contributors elevate the director from the realm of forgotten genius...Highly recommended.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre,\u003c\/i\u003e Hooper nevertheless was instrumental in the development of a robust and deeply political horror genre from the 1960s until his death in 2017. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e, the authors assert that the director was an auteur whose works featured complex monsters and disrupted America’s sacrosanct perceptions of prosperity and domestic security. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the skepticism toward American institutions and media and the articulation of uncanny spaces so integral to Hooper’s vast array of feature and documentary films, made-for-television movies, television episodes, and music videos. From \u003ci\u003eEgg Shells\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) to \u003ci\u003ePoltergeist\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), \u003ci\u003eDjinn\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and even Billy Idol’s music video for “Dancing with Myself” (1985), Tobe Hooper provided a singular directorial vision that investigated masculine anxiety and subverted the idea of American exceptionalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. “\u003cbr\u003eNo Pleasure in Killing”\u003cbr\u003e: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Gothic \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. “\u003cbr\u003eIt’\u003cbr\u003es Better to Be Suggestive:”\u003cbr\u003e Gothic Intertextuality and Hybridity in the 1980s Films of Tobe Hooper (Brigid Cherry)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. \u003ci\u003ePoltergeist\u003c\/i\u003e: TV People and Suburban Rage Monsters (Joan Hawkins)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Teenage Wasteland: Youth and Disillusionment in \u003ci\u003eThe Funhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvaders from Mars\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMortuary\u003c\/i\u003e (Kristopher Woofter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. \u003ci\u003eSalem’\u003cbr\u003es Lot\u003c\/i\u003e: Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Gothic \u003ci\u003ePeyton Place\u003c\/i\u003e (Tony Williams)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Feeding the Industrial Monster: A Critical Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eThe Mangler\u003c\/i\u003e (Carl H. Sederholm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Unsettled Architecture and Avant-Garde Strategies in Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eDown Friday Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToolbox Murders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDjinn\u003c\/i\u003e (Anne Golden and Kristopher Woofter)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. Embodiment \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. Nightmare Images: Tobe Hooper on Horror and Aging (Adam Lowenstein)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Experimental Sorcery in Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eEggshells\u003c\/i\u003e (Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eEaten Alive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrocodile\u003c\/i\u003e (Mike Thorn)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. “\u003cbr\u003eSex or the Saw, Boy, What’\u003cbr\u003es It Gonna Be?”\u003cbr\u003e: Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Anxious Men (Will Dodson)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Bad Touches: \u003ci\u003eSpontaneous Combustion\u003c\/i\u003e in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Family (Alanna Thain)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III. Production and Industry \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Can(n)onical Hooper: A Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Golan-Globus Films (Ian Olney)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es Hollywood: Investigating Occult Spaces in \u003ci\u003eToolbox Murders\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) (Nina K. Martin)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Songs in the Key of Death: Tobe Hooper’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eDancing with Myself”\u003cbr\u003e and “\u003cbr\u003eDance of the Dead”\u003cbr\u003e (Jerry D. Metz)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. The Past Infects the Present: Abjection and Identity in Tobe Hooper's 1990s TV and Video Productions (John Taylor)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. “\u003cbr\u003eGet Back to Work!”\u003cbr\u003e: Critiquing the Hollywood-Industrial Complex in \u003ci\u003eThe Mangler\u003c\/i\u003e (Clayton Dillard)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV. The American Twilight \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e Begins (J. Shea and Ned Schantz)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Tobe Hooper and the American Twilight (Christopher Sharrett)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Cross-Referenced Tobe Hooper Filmography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653103972632,"sku":"9781477329467","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-twilight-the-cinema-of-tobe-hooper-paperback-softback-9781477329467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}