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The highway horror film /
Murphy, Bernice M.,

 

  • The highway horror film /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 791.4361640973
    書名/作者: The highway horror film // Bernice M. Murphy.
    作者: Murphy, Bernice M.,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Horror films - History and criticism. - United States
    標題: Horror films.
    標題: United States.
    ISBN: 1137391200 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137391209 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bumps in the Road: Defining Highway Horror -- 1. 'I Almost Drove Right Past': Motels and Highway Horror -- 2. 'That Truck Driver Tried to Kill Me!' The Highway Nemesis Narrative -- 3. 'Let's Go For a Ride, Otis': Serial Killers in the Highway Horror Film -- 4. 'They Never Even Saw It Coming': The Fatal Car Crash in the Highway Horror Film.
    摘要、提要註: "The Highway Horror Film" argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie that articulates profound unease about the increasingly transitory nature of modern American life, as well as the wider impact of mass automobility. Along with the establishment of the suburbs, the post-1956 construction of the Interstate Highway System represents one of the most dramatic innovations of post-war American society. The new network of well-maintained and well-constructed roads provided Americans with a freedom to move around the entire nation that had previously been denied to them. In addition, the car assumed the vitally important practical and symbolic function it holds to this day. Both of these innovations are questioned in this landmark study. In Highway Horror films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers (and with those whose roadside businesses depend on highway traffic) almost always have sinister outcomes.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137391209
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