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Sunset with Chainsaw

2011; University of California Press; Volume: 64; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/fq.2011.64.4.28

1533-8630

Evan Calder Williams,

Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

Looking back at three films (The Night of the Hunter, House, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), this essay proposes a new way to read horror politically, moving away from allegories of “horrible content” in favor of an attention to the horrors of form and how “secondary” background details assert themselves.