Style and form in the Hollywood slasher film
By: edited by Wickham Clayton, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781137496461
Subjects: History and criticism; Slasher films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the collection awakes; title: 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; title: Undermining the moneygrubbers, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Friday the 13th part v / Wickham Clayton; title: I framed Freddy: functional aesthetics in the a Nightmare on Elm Street series / Karra Shimabukuro; title: Candyman and Saw: re-imagining the slasher film through urban gothic / Stacey Abbott; title: Older, darker, and self-aware. Franchise legacy and neo-slasher conventions in Halloween h20 / Andrew Patrick Nelson; title: Roses are red, violence is too: exploring stylistic excess in Valentine / Mark Richard Adams; title: 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; title: The killer who never was: complex storytelling, the Saw series, and the shifting moral alignment of puzzle film horror / Matthew Freeman; title: Resurrecting Carrie / Gary Bettinson; title: Form vs. theory. Parody, pastiche and intertextuality in Scream: formal and theoretical approaches to the postmodern slasher / Fran Pheasant-Kelly; title: Crises of identification in the supernatural slasher: the resurrection of the supernatural slasher villain / Jessica Balanzategui; title: Queer erotic aesthetics in Marcus Nispel's The Texas chainsaw massacre / Darren Elliott-Smith; title: Beyond surveillance: questions of the real in the neo-postmodern horror film / Dana Och; title: The slasher, the final girl, and the anti-denouement / Janet Staiger.