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Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Ian Conrich and David Woods
1 Disorder in the Universe: John Carpenter and the Question of Genre 10
Barry Keith Grant
2 Us and Them: Authority and Identity in Carpenter's Films 21
David Woods
3 A Siege Mentality? Form and Ideology in Carpenter's Early Siege Films 35
Steve Smith
4 Fast and Cheap? The Film Music of John Carpenter 49
David Burnand and Miguel Mera
5 Carpenter's Widescreen Style 66
Sheldon Hall
6 'A Spook Ride on Film': Carpenter and the Gothic 78
Marie Mulvey-Roberts
7 Killing Time ... and Time Again: The Popular Appeal of Carpenter's 91
Horrors and the Impact of The Thing and Halloween
Ian Conrich
8 Masculinity, Kurt Russell and the Escape Films 107
Robert Shail
9 From Elvis to LA.: Reflections on the Carpenter-Russell Films 118
Tony Williams
10 Restorative and Destructive: Carpenter and Maternal Authority 128
Suzie Young
11 'Something Came Leaking Out': Carpenter's Unholy Abominations 140
Anna Powell
12 Revisionings: Repetition as Creative Nostalgia in the Films of 155
John Carpenter
Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz
13 An Interview with John Carpenter 167
Conducted by Ronald V Borst
Compiled by Ian Conrich and David Woods
Filmography 180
Bibliography 192
Index 214
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Carpenter, John Criticism and interpretation