Book Description This book gives Carpenter"s output the sustained critical treatment it deserves. It contains essays by an international group of scholars that address the whole of Carpenter"s work, as well as others which focus on a smaller number of key films. Some essays take on wide-ranging issues such as Carpenter"s approach to remakes and the question of genre, while others are organized around a specific theme or technical aspect of Carpenter"s filmmaking. The book also features an exclusive interview with John Carpenter.