Dark Carnivals : : Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire

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Call Number: 791.43 Po, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Performing Arts / Film & TV / Poole, W. Scott
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Prologue: Carnival and Empire -- Part I: The Shark and the Chain Saw. Empire of Horror -- American Massacres -- I Wish They All Could Be California Girls -- I Used to Hate the Water -- Built on Top of a What?? -- Horrors, Foreign and Domestic -- Weird Mystery Tales -- Empire's Butcher Bill -- The Thing on the Stairs -- The Greenbaum Effect -- Stranded in a Nightmare -- Part II: Atomic Empire. Twilight Zone -- Death of the Monsters? -- My Man Frankenstein -- Monster Mash -- Dracula vs. the FBI -- Terror Bombing -- Void, Despair, Torment -- Cold Warriors... in Space!! -- Noon on Doomsday -- What the Martian Said -- Shelter from the Midnight Sun -- Part III: Cold War, Red Planet. Unidentified -- Crash Landings -- Lone Gunmen -- The Creatures with Atom Brains!! -- We Gratefully Acknowledge the Cooperation of Those in Authority -- The Midnight Monster Show -- Future Imperfect -- Who Goes There? -- Crime, Sadism, Monsters, Ghouls, Corpses -- Two-Fisted Tales -- Part IV: Zombie Republics, Body Bags. Black Magic Island -- Jungle Fever -- Bombs and Movies -- Welcome (Back) to the Jungle -- Night(s) of the Living Dead -- The Null Zone -- Empire's Missing Links -- The Creature in a Grave of Ice!! -- Drugs, Cryptids, and Covert Ops -- They Own the Night -- The Ghost of a Previous Nightmare -- Bats Leaving, Virgins Bleeding -- Part V: Antichrist Country. Unlucky Numbers -- Elm Street -- Waiting for the Antichrist -- Serpents and Rainbows -- Ain't Got Time to Bleed -- God Is Dead! Satan Lives! -- Norman Rockwell Is Burning in Hell -- Space, the Wild Frontier -- They Live -- Part VI: The Forever Wars. Do You Like Scary Movies? -- Ignoring the Tales from the Hood -- The Rules -- Let's Nuke the Bastards -- Very Pretty Space Fascists -- Unadorned Butchery -- Apocalypse, Right Now -- Al-Qaedzilla -- Ghosting in Spook Country -- Zombie Black Ops -- Digital Demons -- Purging -- Like Something Out of a Zombie Movie -- Epilogue: Scattered Like Tombstones.
"With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

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