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The postmodern slasher film / Steve Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Steve, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slasher films--History and criticism.
- Slasher films.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche and deconstruction. Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from their predecessors because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche and deconstruction. The Postmodern Slasher Film challenges those assumptions by demonstrating that those same traits have been present in the slasher subgenre since its 1980s boom-period. This book instead argues that postmodern slasher films are more pertinently distinguished by their tone, which is characterised by self-consciousness, duplicity, cynicism and fatalism." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The ‘postmodern’ slasher film
- Intertextuality and metafiction in the postmodern slasher film
- Tracing intertextuality and metafiction back to the boom-period
- Parody and the slasher subgenre
- Deconstruction, ontological doubt and authorial control
- Irony, duplicity and superiority
- Epistemic doubt in the postmodern slasher whodunit
- Callousness, insularity, presentism and fatalism
- Conclusion: legacies of the postmodern slasher film.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 14, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jones, Steve, 1979- Postmodern slasher film
- ISBN:
- 9781399537124
- 1399537121
- 9781399537117
- 1399537113
- 9781399537100
- 1399537105
- OCLC:
- 1519879071
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000222123
- CIPO000260601
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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