Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
248
Utgivningsdatum
2021-08-09
Förlag
Headpress
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unspecified 1 Illustrations
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1 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensioner
202 x 126 x 18 mm
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318 g
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1
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20:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781909394810

Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Political Satire

av Martin Harris
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-08-09
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Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick presents a fascinating minute-by-minute exploration of many uncanny connections between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Watergate. Covering the White House horrors, the Saturday Night Massacre, and more, the book convincingly explains how Chain Saw satirizes the scandal once famously described as "our long national nightmare."

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiered in October 1974, mere weeks after the resignation and pardon of Richard Nixon brought an uncertain end to the most corrupt and criminal presidency in American history. The film had been conceived, written, shot, edited, and produced precisely as Watergate was playing out, and those responsible for Chain Saw unhesitatingly spoke of the horrors of contemporary politics as having directly inspired the ones they created for the film.

Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick presents a fascinating minute-by-minute exploration of the many uncanny connections between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Watergate, as well as other ways the film comments on contemporary politics via satire and (very) dark humor. Read and discover Chain Saw's response to the White House horrors, the Saturday Night Massacre, and more, as well as how Leatherface's masks relate to all those Nixon masks worn throughout "our long national nightmare."
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Innehållsförteckning

introduction

 

caught in the vortex (0:00)

writing partners (0:00)

what happened is true. that was a lie (0:14)

one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of american history (0:48)

another saturday night massacre (1:03)

flash photography in the dark (1:26)

one of a series of indictments (2:16)

a crime is discovered (2:23)

a word cut in two (3:31)

a sinister force (4:01)

no explanation for the attack (4:47)

how to read roadkill (4:51)

it's all downhill from here (6:16)

saturn in retrograde (6:43)

expletive deleted (7:28)

please change the subject (9:57)

the creeps (10:27)

the southern strategy (10:52)

the old way and the new way (11:37)

law and order (17:41)

the events of the world are not doing much, either, to cheer one up (18:09)

american astrology (18:18)

the old man (19:31)

no gas (19:39)

you think you could do that to yourself? (22:12)

looks like he was trying to write something (23:40)

messing around an old house (26:09)

uncovering a pattern (32:19)

killer in a tie (35:24)

the white house horrors (35:51)

the madman theory (37:43)

the hook (39:30)

hearing is believing (39:39)

everything means something, i guess (42:45)

a theory of containment (46:46)

the nixon shock (52:11)

who will survive and what will be left of them? (58:35)

a large and well-organized west coast jewel theft ring (1:00:06)

the instinct to cover up (1:00:32)

this little moment about capitalism (1:03:02)

you damn fool, you almost got caught (1:05:04)

look what your brother did to the door! (1:06:22)

conspiracy (1:06:59)

grandpa (1:10:51)

leatherface and the nixon mask (1:13:04)

no sex (1:14:11)

eye under a microscope (1:14:47)

the committee meeting will come to order (1:15:19)

killing with honor (1:16:47)

you have to laugh (1:21:33)

 

notes

appendix: chronology of events related to watergate and the texas chain saw massacre

works cited

index

about the author

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