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American Twilight
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  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
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