ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven 9781399507028

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I The Early Wes Craven
1 In Search of Pandora Experimentia
2 Censorship in Liberal Times? The Legacy of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left in Germany
3 The Hills Have Eyes as Folk Horror: a Discursive Approach
4 “Why Are You Doing This!?” Flashbacks in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part II
Part II Freddy Krueger and Beyond
5 The American Nightmare Continued: Individualism, Feminism, and Freddy Krueger
6 The “Nightmare” on Elm Street: The Failure and Responsibility of Those in Authority
7 Controlling the Souls in the Machine: Wes Craven Directs for the 1985 Twilight Zone Revival
8 From Friends to Monsters: The Horrors of Technology, Friendship, and the Monsters Next Door in Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend
Part III “Craven” in the Mainstream—The “Hollywood” Nightmares of Wes Craven
9 Self-fulfilling Prophecies and Metaphysical Chastisement in The Serpent and The Rainbow
10 Death is Not the End: Electric Dreams and Mass Media Manipulation in Wes Craven’s Shocker
11 The People Under the Stairs at the Intersection of Black Horror and Children’s Horror
12 “I’m a whole other thing”: The People Under the Stairs and Systemic Racism in the Reagan/Bush Era
13 A Nightmare on Video: The Terrors of Home Viewership in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
14 Not Quite Blacula: Locating Vampire in Brooklyn
Part IV Lineage and Legacies
15 The Unlikely Urban Undertaking: Music of the Heart and its Curious Craven Consistencies
16 “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
17 “How Meta Can You Get?” Scream 4 and Wes Craven’s Final Nightmares
Filmography
Bibliography
Index