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