Style and form in the Hollywood slasher film
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9781137496478, 9781349573455, 9781137496461, 9781137496485, 1137496479, 1349573450, 1137496460, 1137496487
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Introduction: the collection awakes
The birth, death, and resurrection of the slasher film. (in)stability of point of view in when a stranger calls and eyes of a stranger / David Roche
Undermining the moneygrubbers, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Friday the 13th part v / Wickham Clayton
I framed Freddy: functional aesthetics in the a Nightmare on Elm Street series / Karra Shimabukuro
Candyman and Saw: re-imagining the slasher film through urban gothic / Stacey Abbott
Older, darker, and self-aware. Franchise legacy and neo-slasher conventions in Halloween h20 / Andrew Patrick Nelson
Roses are red, violence is too: exploring stylistic excess in Valentine / Mark Richard Adams
Puzzles, contraptions, and the highly elaborate moment: the inevitability of death in the grand slasher narratives of the Final destination and Saw series of films / Ian Conrich
The killer who never was: complex storytelling, the Saw series, and the shifting moral alignment of puzzle film horror / Matthew Freeman
Resurrecting Carrie / Gary Bettinson
Form vs. theory. Parody, pastiche and intertextuality in Scream: formal and theoretical approaches to the postmodern slasher / Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Crises of identification in the supernatural slasher: the resurrection of the supernatural slasher villain / Jessica Balanzategui
Queer erotic aesthetics in Marcus Nispel's The Texas chainsaw massacre / Darren Elliott-Smith
Beyond surveillance: questions of the real in the neo-postmodern horror film / Dana Och
The slasher, the final girl, and the anti-denouement / Janet Staiger