Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter

An obscure independent filmmaker until Halloween (1978), John Carpenter has been applauded for his classic sense of compositions, yet reviled for his "B—film" sensibility. This second edition of the first book—length analysis finds in Carpenter's films a vision of a profound but unexpected order in the universe. The author analyzes Carpenter's early independent work, his made—for—television movies, his big Hollywood films (The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Stephen King's Christine, ...