Making And Remaking Horror In The 1970s And 2000s Why Dont They Do It Like They

An Expansive Treatment Of The Meanings And Qualities Of Original And Remade American Horror Movies In Making And Remaking Horror In The 1970s And 2000s Author David Roche Takes Up The Assumption Shared By Many Fans And Scholars That Original Horror Movies Are More Disturbing, And Thus Better Than The Remakes. He Assesses The Qualities Of Movies, Old And Recast, According To Criteria That Include Subtext, Originality, And Cohesion. With A Methodology That Combines A Formalist And Cultural Studies Approach, Roche Sifts Aspects Of The American Horror Movie That Have Been Widely Addressed (class, The Patriarchal Family, Gender, And The Opposition Between Terror And Horror) And Those That Have Been Somewhat Neglected (race, The Gothic, Style, And Verisimilitude).