Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don T They Do It Like They Used To?

by David Roche (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2014

  $132.03

  This is an expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies. In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more disturbing, and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. Containing 78 black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween - and their 21st-century remakes. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.