TRM 151 Lecture Notes - Frontier Thesis, Auteur Theory, Wes Craven
1 Feb 2014
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Desolate fronteirs in the films of john carpenter. Ended up in a class by pure chance: shuttle, protest appear at oscars . Book written to examine why films are offensive. Horror is most noted film to receive protests. Book on why we watch something unpleasant, horror. Aspects of american culture are transmuted for us. 1930s and great depression constistutes first golden age of horro. Three directors helped shape the second golden age of horror. George romero (starts the trend), wes craven (continual success) and john carpenter (a likely star derailed by end of era) Today"s horrors are almost all remakes of their blueprint. 1968-1982, from night of the living dead (romero) to the thing (carpenter) Speilberg"s et is a boom, the thing is a bust: john carpenter. Geography of horror, isolated people, on the edge. Re-workings of the frontier, social order vs repressed desire. The frontier drives american ideology, also embodies many fears.
