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Horror franchise cinema / edited by Mark McKenna and William Proctor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in film studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror films--Marketing.
- Marketing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: The death and resurrection show: horror franchise cinema and the romanticization of cult / William Proctor and Marc McKenna
- Building imaginary horror worlds: transfictional storytelling and the Universal monster franchise cycle / William Proctor
- Section I: Slasher and post-slashers
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: a 'peculiar, erratic' franchise / Mark Bernard
- If I were a Carpenter: prestige and authorship in the Halloween franchise / Murray Leeder
- If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming: the Elm Street series as recurring nightmare / Steve Jones
- Allowing 'Us just to LIVE there': atmosphere and audience evaluation of the Alien film series / Kate Egan
- Section II: Millennial franchises
- Cut-price creeps: the Blumhouse model of horror franchise management / Todd Platts
- When the subtext becomes text: the Purge takes on the American nightmare / Stacey Abbott
- Section III: Cult franchises
- "What film is your film like"? negotiating authenticity in the distributive seriality of the Zombi Franchise / Mark McKenna
- Horror heroine or symbolic sacrifice: defining the I spit on your grave franchise as horror / Sarah Cleary
- Section IV: Complicating franchising
- Seriality between the horror franchise and the horror anthology film
- When is a franchise not a franchise: the case of let the right one in / Simon Bacon
- 'A match made in heaven (or hell)': franchise experiments between the horror film genre and virtual reality media (2014-2020) / Sara Thomas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 01, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Horror franchise cinema
- ISBN:
- 9780429593840
- 0429593848
- 9780429060830
- 0429060831
- Publisher Number:
- 40030873059
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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