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The highway horror film /

Murphy, Bernice M.,

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The highway horror film /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The highway horror film // Bernice M. Murphy.
Author:	Murphy, Bernice M.,
Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	Horror films - History and criticism. - United States -
Subject:	United States. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137391209
ISBN:	1137391200 (electronic bk.)

The highway horror film /
Murphy, Bernice M.,

The highway horror film /Bernice M. Murphy. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

ISBN: 1137391200 (electronic bk.)

Source: 744396Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

854480
Horror films
--History and criticism.--United StatesSubjects--Geographical Terms:

574237
United States.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

2020027
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.H6

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4361640973

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