Style and form in the Hollywood slasher film / edited by Wickham Clayton, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clayton, Wickham, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slasher films--United States--History and criticism.

Slasher films.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137496461

1137496460

OCLC:

910091049