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Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments introduction: The Collection Awakes PART I: THE BIRTH, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF THE SLASHER FILM 1. (In)Stability of Point of View in When a Stranger Calls and Eyes of a Stranger; David Roche 2. Undermining the Moneygrubbers, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Friday the 13th Part V; Wickham Clayton 3. I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Series; Karra Shimabukuro 4. Candyman and Saw: Re-imagining the Slasher Film Through Urban Gothic; Stacey Abbott PART II: OLDER, DARKER, AND SELF-AWARE 5. Franchise Legacy and Neo-Slasher Conventions in Halloween H20; Andrew Patrick Nelson 6. Roses are Red, Violence is Too: Exploring Stylistic Excess in Valentine; Mark Richard Adams 7. 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 8. The Killer Who Never Was: Complex Storytelling, the Saw Series, and the Shifting Moral Alignment of Puzzle Film Horror; Matthew Freeman 9. Resurrecting Carrie; Gary Bettinson PART III: FORM VS. THEORY 10. Parody, Pastiche and Intertextuality in Scream: Formal and Theoretical Approaches to the Postmodern Slasher; Fran Pheasant-Kelly 11. Crises of Identification in the Supernatural Slasher: The Resurrection of the Supernatural Slasher Villain; Jessica Balanzategui 12. Queer Erotic Aesthetics in Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003); Darren Elliott-Smith 13. Beyond Surveillance: Questions of the Real in the Neo-postmodern Horror Film; Dana Och 14. The Slasher, the Final Girl, and the Anti-Denouement; Janet Staiger Index



