The Metamodern Slasher Film / Steve Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Steve, author.

Series:

21st century horror.

21st Century Horror Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slasher films--History and criticism.

Slasher films.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Argues that contemporary slasher films embody a turn towards the metamodern sensibility.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Slasher Subgenre: Definitions and Tropes

The Structure of the Book

Aims and Caveats

1. From Postmodern to Metamodern Slasher

Metamodernism (and its Alternatives)

From Postmodern Slasher Films . . .

. . . to Metamodern Slasher Films

A New Beginning

2. Investment (Epistemology)

Are You Experienced?: Unreliable Perspectives and Ambiguity in Shrooms

Three Sides to Every Story: Repetition, Reflection and Responsibility in Triangle

Centralising Subjective Experiences

3. Coherence (Ontology)

Pulp Friction: Metafictional Devices and Ontological Uncertainty

Death Becomes Her: Structure as Catalyst for Growth in Happy Death Day

Coherence and Meaning

4. Conventionality

Murder Will Out: Exposing Conventions in Behind the Mask

Bad Advice: Unorthodox Perspectives and Positional Slippage in You Might Be the Killer

Conventional Wisdom

5. Subtraction

Leveraging Subgenre Knowledge: From Postmodern Exclusion and Unoriginality to Metamodern

No Killer, No Cry?: Subtracting the Slasher in I Didn't Come Here to Die

Structural Compression in Murder Loves Killers Too

'Every-Victim', Every Slasher: KillerKiller

Loss Aversion, Forward Momentum

6. Hypercoding

Amped-Up '80s: Pleasurable Absurdism in Dude Bro Party Massacre III

Any Time Now: Detention's Heterochronic 'Stylish Style'

Wreaking Havoc: Substance in Stylistic Excess

7. Nostalgia

No Time Like the Present: Slasher Throwbacks and Replication

Ahead of its Time: Getting Schooled and Revision

Time and Time Again: Looking Back, Moving Forward

8. Remake, Sequel, Reboot, Requel

Time After Time: Retconning, Retrocausality and Revis[it]ing the Past

Dead Ringer: Scream (and Scream Again)

Return to Form: Laurie's Search for Meaning in Halloween (2018).

The Point of No Return: Freddy's Dead as Proto-Metamodern Requel

Come Again?: The Metamodern Requel

9. The New Icons

Death By Design: Creating New Icons

Old School, New Context: Hatchet

Old Dog, New Tricks: Axe Murdering with Hackley

Subgeneric Upcycling

Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-3995-2098-9

1-3995-2097-0

OCLC:

1423345803