Highway Horror Film

Informationen zum Autor Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Publications include The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009), The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture (2013) and the collections Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005) and (with Darryl Jones and Elizabeth McCarthy) It Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (2011). Klappentext The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes. Zusammenfassung The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films! the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile! and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

List of contents

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 Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: B. Murphy, Bernice Murphy, Bernice M Murphy, Bernice M. Murphy
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2014
• EAN: 9781137391193
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39119-3
• No. of pages: 113
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Genre, C, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Communication, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies, American Cinema and TV, Motion pictures—United States, American Film and TV, Film history, theory or criticism