Full Description
Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium. By respecting seminal works in the field, it has a particular concentration on the canons of slashers, the Conjuring universe, the Saw franchise, the world of the latest Scream(s), M. Night Shyamalan's storyworld, the Blumhouse model in horror, the It duology, the Halloween franchise, recent debates on aesthetics in horror, and the issue of elevated horror. It presents specific cases to discover contemporary nightmares within critical examinations. Indeed, this book is designed for researchers, scholars, and academicians.
Contents
Acknowledgments - Tuna Tetik/Dilay Özgüven Tetik: Preface: Introduction to Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema - Kaya Özkaracalar:Foreword - Kaya Özkaracalar: Post- Classical, Early Modern American Horror Films - Dilay Özgüven Tetik: The Conjuring Movies (2013- 2021) at the Center of the Horror Universe: Exploring the Structure of the Haunted World of James Wan - Tuna Tetik: Anatomy of Jigsaw: The Moral Code and the Legacy of John Kramer in the Saw Franchise - Dilay Özgüven Tetik: Back to the Original: A Contextual Analysis of Scream (1996) and Scream (2022) - Ece Arıhan: Redefining the Making of a Genre: A Thorough Investigation of the Blumhouse Model - Tuna Tetik :Horror Meets the Superhero: The Shyamalan Effect in Horror - Burak Bayülgen: The Shell That Pennywise Tried but Failed to Shatter: It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) - Ece Arıhan: Subverting the Genre: The Evolution of the Final Girl in the Halloween Franchise - Savaş Arslan: New Names to Old Villains: Art- , Post- , and Elevated Horrors of the Contemporary - Sertaç Koyuncu: Hellraisers, Cenobites, and Beyond: Masochistic Aesthetic in the Horror Film - List of Tables - Biographies of the Authors.
