Shock Value
Jason Zinoman
Penguin Group USA, Inc.
<p><B>An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre. </B><p>Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film-aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, <I>The New York Times</I>'s critic Jason Zinoman's <I>Shock Value</I> delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.<p>By the late 1960s, horror was stuck in the past, confined mostly to drive-in theaters and exploitation houses, and shunned by critics. <I>Shock Value</I> tells the unlikely story of how the much-disparaged horror film became an ambitious art form while also conquering the multiplex....