10 Death is Not the End: Electric Dreams and Mass Media Manipulation in Wes Craven’s Shocker

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Early Wes Craven
7. 1 In Search of Pandora Experimentia 17
8. 2 Censorship in Liberal Times? The Legacy of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left in Germany 32
9. 3 The Hills Have Eyes as Folk Horror: a Discursive Approach 52
10. 4 “Why Are You Doing This!?” Flashbacks in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part II 70
11. Part II Freddy Krueger and Beyond
12. 5 The American Nightmare Continued: Individualism, Feminism, and Freddy Krueger 87
13. 6 The “Nightmare” on Elm Street: The Failure and Responsibility of Those in Authority 102
14. 7 Controlling the Souls in the Machine: Wes Craven Directs for the 1985 Twilight Zone Revival 118
15. 8 From Friends to Monsters: The Horrors of Technology, Friendship, and the Monsters Next Door in Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend 133
16. Part III “Craven” in the Mainstream—The “Hollywood” Nightmares of Wes Craven
17. 9 Self-fulfilling Prophecies and Metaphysical Chastisement in The Serpent and The Rainbow 149
18. 10 Death is Not the End: Electric Dreams and Mass Media Manipulation in Wes Craven’s Shocker 162
19. 11 The People Under the Stairs at the Intersection of Black Horror and Children’s Horror 177
20. 12 “I’m a whole other thing”: The People Under the Stairs and Systemic Racism in the Reagan/Bush Era 190
21. 13 A Nightmare on Video: The Terrors of Home Viewership in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare 204
22. 14 Not Quite Blacula: Locating Vampire in Brooklyn 217
23. Part IV Lineage and Legacies
24. 15 The Unlikely Urban Undertaking: Music of the Heart and its Curious Craven Consistencies 233
25. 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 248
26. 17 “How Meta Can You Get?” Scream 4 and Wes Craven’s Final Nightmares 262
27. Filmography 277
28. Bibliography 283
29. Index 297