eng: 11 movies by John Carpenter, compared to selected literary profiles. - Religious aspects/ the supernatural (symbols and imagery): books of Apocalypse, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', essays and reviews by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Grave's 'The Triple Goddess'. - The future of mankind: Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World', George Orwell's '1984' - The role of female protagonists: Stephen King's 'Christine'; Robert Louis Stevensons's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' - Access to Carpenter's code of morals: John Steinbeck's idea of 'non-teleological thinking', Walther von der Vogelweide's 'vrô welt', Wolfgang Kayser's idea of 'the grotesque' - Interview with John Carpenter - Brief plot outlines: 'Assault on Precinct 13, 'Christine', 'Escape from New York', 'Eyes of Laura Mars', 'Halloween', 'Halloween II', 'Someone Is watching Me', 'The Fog', 'The Thing', 'They Live', 'Prince of Darkness'.
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