The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation by Lanza, Joseph

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation

Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled...
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Author: Joseph Lanza
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation by Lanza, Joseph

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation

€41,39

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation

€41,39
Author: Joseph Lanza
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.

When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence. The film--in which a group of teenagers meet a gruesome end when they stumble upon a ramshackle farmhouse of psychotic killers--was outright banned in several countries and was pulled from many American theaters after complaints of its violence.

Despite the mixed reception from critics, it was enormously profitable at the domestic box office and has since secured its place as one of the most influential horror movies ever made.

Joseph Lanza transports the reader back to the tumultuous era of the 1970s defined by political upheaval, cultural disillusionment, and the perceived decay of the nuclear family in the wake of Watergate, the onslaught of serial killers in the US, as well as mounting racial and sexual tensions. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Its Terrifying Times sets the themes of the film against the backdrop of the political and social American climate to understand why the brutal slasher flick connected with so many viewers. As much a book about the movie as the moment,

Joseph Lanza has created an engaging and nuanced work that grapples with the complications of the American experience.

Author: Joseph Lanza
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 05/21/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781510737907


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 123
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2019

About the Author
Joseph Lanza is the author of several books that center on independent film. His book Gravity: Tilted Perspectives on Rocketships, Rollercoasters, Earthquakes, and Angel Food (St. Martin's Press/Picador, 1997) was well-received and was selected for the Los Angeles Times' Best Non-Fiction Books list of 1997. Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films (Chicago Review Press, 2007) received positive reviews from Financial Times. He lives in New Jersey.

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