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(0)Adam Rockoff
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"In writing about this rogue genre, Rockoff limits his audience. Yet in gathering all the nasty bits of gougings, stabbings, and bloodlettings that constitute the production of this cinematic subspecies, he targets how such gory films as Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. actually altered the shadowy landscape of US cinema. For the most part, the author surveys the history of the specialized genre with reviews of key films and scans the...
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Only in America could two immigrants, an English candle-maker and an Irish soap-maker, create what would become the most powerful consumer goods company in history. In the 1830s, when William Procter and James Gamble founded the company that would bear their names, they could never have envisioned that one day their products would touch everything from babies' bottoms to ladies' eyebrows. With intimate interviews and unprecedented access to legendary...