Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle HC (1990) comic books 1990-1999
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Published 1990 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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1st printing. By Vera Dika. Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Victor Miller and Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980), Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Don Mancini and Tom Holland's Child's Play (1988) - this book is a critical study of the low-budget film formula described as the "stalker" film, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The discussion suggests reasons for its impressive popularity and demonstrates how a generic form is organized to speak a cultural text. Illustrated. Hardcover, 6-in.x 9-in., 154 pages, Text.