By carefully focusing on the historical and artistic contexts in which Kolchak: The Night Stalker emerged, Kendall Phillips offers insights into the way the series both reflected contemporary horror narratives and changed them.
Kendall R. Phillips is professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University. He is also the author of Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture;Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film; A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema; and A Cinema of Hopelessness: The Rhetoric of Rage in 21st Century Popular Culture. He holds visiting appointments at Massey University (New Zealand) and Shanghai University and serves as founding co-director for the Lender Center for Social Justice.