Horror at the Drive-In

Gary D. Rhodes, a documentary filmmaker, is a professor at the Queen’s University, Belfast.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction     DRIVING1 Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Wolf Man? Or, the Other Meaning of Auto-Eroticism    2 Drive-In Horror Across the Outback: Surf, Sand and Sisters    SITUATING THE HORROR3 Naked! Screaming! Terror! The Rhetoric of Hype and Drive-In Movie Trailers    4 A Drive-In Horror by Default, or, The Premiere of The Hideous Sun Demon    5 Ideology and Style in the Double Feature I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Curse of the Demon     6 The Legacy of Last House on the Left     BOILING HOT AND COLD: THE PRESSURES OFWAR7 Apocalypse Here and Now: Making Sense of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre   8 In the Science Fiction Name of National Security: Cat Women of the Moon   INTERPRETING GENDER AND SEXUALIZED IDENTITIES9 “Horror Has Its Ultimate, and I Am That”: Severing the Bonds of Identity in The Head and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die     10 Ed Wood, Glen or Glenda and the Limits of Foucauldian Discourse    11 Daughter of Horror: Low-Budget Filmmaking, Generic Instability and Sexual Politics  12 Evil, Beautiful, Deadly: Publicity Posters of Drive-In Horror’s Monstrous Women!   13 Unmasking Patriarchy’s Savior: Gender Politics in Samson versus the Vampire Women    UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL CURRENTS14 Monsters and Mayhem Below the Mason-Dixon     15 Italian Cinema Goes to the Drive-In: The Intercultural Horrors of Mario Bava   EXAMINING TECHNOLOGY IN, BEHIND AND BEYOND THE DRIVE-IN16 The Threat of Materialism in the Age of Genetics: DNA at the Drive-In     17 Wizards of Gore, Dances of Life and Hidden Dimensions     18 Drinking Blood with Walter Benjamin and David Durston     About the Contributors     Index

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