Pt. 1. Creatures from beyond: rationalisation and resistance in the invasion narratives. 1. Alien forms: horror and science fiction in the 1950s. 2. The end of civilisation as we know it?: from mass destruction to depersonalisation -- Pt. 2. The outsider narratives. 3. Fantasies of mass culture: the fiction of Ray Bradbury. 4. The dilemmas of masculinity: the fiction of Richard Matheson. 5. The critique of maturity: the films of Jack Arnold. 6. Teenagers and the independents: AIP and its rivals -- Pt. 3. Resituating Psycho: paranoid horror and the crisis of identity at the end of the decade. 7. Self-division, compulsion and murder: the fiction of Robert Bloch. 8. The crisis of identity and the American gothic revival: from Forbidden Planet to the films of Roger Corman. 9. Mothers and children: maternal dominance and childhood trauma in The Haunting of Hill House and Hitchcock's Psycho
Analysis
Cinema Horror films History
United States
Notes
Includes chronology (p. [305]-310)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-317) and index
