Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as social commentary. The breakdown of classicism in form and content

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Film Science, grade: 71, University of Greenwich, course: Film Studies, language: English, abstract: This essay examines Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as a form of social commentary with special attention to the breakdown of classicism in its form and content. The 60's for film is marked as a breakdown of classicism in "formal innovation and n...