“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations
1970s horror film and exploitation staple, The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978), is here used as a case study in incoherent narrative strategy and ideology and explores the incoherencies of this relationship to adapting “true stories.” Through an overt intertitle, the film itself implicitly s...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7901 |