About the Author

Kendall R. Phillips is associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. His book publications include Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America, Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture, and Framing Public Memory.

Reviews

"Despite the powerful influence a number of their remarkable films continue to exercise, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and George Romero do not often receive the sort of auteurist analysis provided by Dark Directions. This book will be especially eye-opening for those relatively unfamiliar with the careers of these underappreciated directors, as Kendall Phillips describes their work in ways that encourage the reader to seek out the films for a closer look."--Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film"In Dark Directions, Kendall Phillips offers scrupulous readings of the film rhetorics of auteurs George Romero, Wes Craven, and John Carpenter, showing how they engage the anxieties of contemporary culture in thematic explorations of the body (Romero), the Gothic (Craven), and the frontier (Carpenter)."--Thomas W. Benson, Penn State University