Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION “No Pleasure in Killing”: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper xiii
5. PART I HOOPER’S GOTHIC
6. CHAPTER 1 “It’s Better to Be Suggestive:” Gothic Intertextuality and Hybridity in the 1980s Films of Tobe Hooper 1
7. CHAPTER 2 Poltergeist: TV People and Suburban Rage Monsters 16
8. CHAPTER 3 Tobe Hooper’s Teenage Wasteland: Youth and Disillusionment in The Funhouse, Invaders from Mars, and Mortuary 29
9. CHAPTER 4 Salem’s Lot: Tobe Hooper’s Gothic Peyton Place 43
10. CHAPTER 5 Feeding the Industrial Monster: A Critical Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler 54
11. CHAPTER 6 Unsettled Architecture and Avant-Garde Strategies in Tobe Hooper’s Down Friday Street, Toolbox Murders, and Djinn 68
12. PART II EMBODIMENT
13. CHAPTER 7 Nightmare Images: Tobe Hooper on Horror and Aging 81
14. CHAPTER 8 Experimental Sorcery in Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells 95
15. CHAPTER 9 Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile 106
16. CHAPTER 10 “Sex or the Saw, Boy, What’s It Gonna Be?”: Tobe Hooper’s Anxious Men 116
17. CHAPTER 11 Bad Touches: Spontaneous Combustion in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Family 135
18. PART III PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
19. CHAPTER 12 Can(n)onical Hooper: A Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s Golan- Globus Films 147
20. CHAPTER 13 Hooper’s Hollywood: Investigating Occult Spaces in Toolbox Murders 164
21. CHAPTER 14 Songs in the Key of Death: Tobe Hooper’s “Dancing with Myself ” and “Dance of the Dead” 177
22. CHAPTER 15 The Past Infects the Present: Abjection and Identity in Tobe Hooper’s 1990s TV and Video Productions 189
23. CHAPTER 16 “Get Back to Work!”: Critiquing the Hollywood-Industrial Complex in The Mangler 203
24. PART IV THE AMERICAN TWILIGHT
25. CHAPTER 17 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Begins 215
26. CHAPTER 18 Tobe Hooper and the American Twilight 229
27. APPENDIX Cross-Referenced Tobe Hooper Filmography 237
28. REFERENCES 247
29. CONTRIBUTORS 259
30. INDEX 263