American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper

Acknowledgments
Introduction. “No Pleasure in Killing”: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson)
Part I. Hooper’s Gothic
	Chapter 1. “It’s Better to Be Suggestive:” Gothic Intertextuality and Hybridity in the 1980s Films of Tobe Hooper (Brigid Cherry)
	Chapter 2. Poltergeist: TV People and Suburban Rage Monsters (Joan Hawkins)
	Chapter 3. Tobe Hooper’s Teenage Wasteland: Youth and Disillusionment in The Funhouse, Invaders from Mars, and Mortuary (Kristopher Woofter)
	Chapter 4. Salem’s Lot: Tobe Hooper’s Gothic Peyton Place (Tony Williams)
	Chapter 5. Feeding the Industrial Monster: A Critical Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler (Carl H. Sederholm)
	Chapter 6. Unsettled Architecture and Avant-Garde Strategies in Tobe Hooper’s Down Friday Street, Toolbox Murders, and Djinn (Anne Golden and Kristopher Woofter)
Part II. Embodiment
	Chapter 7. Nightmare Images: Tobe Hooper on Horror and Aging (Adam Lowenstein)
	Chapter 8. Experimental Sorcery in Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells (Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare)
	Chapter 9. Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile (Mike Thorn)
	Chapter 10. “Sex or the Saw, Boy, What’s It Gonna Be?”: Tobe Hooper’s Anxious Men (Will Dodson)
	Chapter 11. Bad Touches: Spontaneous Combustion in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Family (Alanna Thain)
Part III. Production and Industry
	Chapter 12. Can(n)onical Hooper: A Reconsideration of Tobe Hooper’s Golan-Globus Films (Ian Olney)
	Chapter 13. Hooper’s Hollywood: Investigating Occult Spaces in Toolbox Murders (2004)  (Nina K. Martin)
	Chapter 14. Songs in the Key of Death: Tobe Hooper’s “Dancing with Myself” and “Dance of the Dead” (Jerry D. Metz)
	Chapter 15. The Past Infects the Present: Abjection and Identity in Tobe Hooper\'s 1990s TV and Video Productions (John Taylor)
	Chapter 16. “Get Back to Work!”: Critiquing the Hollywood-Industrial Complex in The Mangler (Clayton Dillard)
Part IV. The American Twilight
	Chapter 17. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Begins (J. Shea and Ned Schantz)
	Chapter 18. Tobe Hooper and the American Twilight (Christopher Sharrett)
Appendix: Cross-Referenced Tobe Hooper Filmography
References
List of Contributors
Index