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Blumhouse productions : the new house of horror / edited by Todd K. Platts, Victoria McCollum and Mathias Clasen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Horror studies.
- Horror Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--Production and direction.
- Horror films.
- Blumhouse Productions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters offer readers a deeper appreciation of how Blumhouse makes its films with an unusual, but successful, business model.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- Victoria McCollum, Mathias Clasen and Todd K. Platts
- 1. Blumhouse at the Box Office, 2009-2018
- Todd K. Platts
- 2. 'Those Things You See Through'
- Get Out, Signifyin', and Hollywood's Commodification of African-American Independent Cinema
- Stefan Sereda
- 3. Haunted Bodies, Haunted Houses
- Racheal Harris
- 4. Gothixity
- Evoking the Gothic through New Forms of Toxic Masculinity
- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
- 5. Space Invaders
- Aliens and Recessionary Anxieties in Dark Skies
- Craig Ian Mann
- 6. The (Blum)House that Found-Footage Horror Built
- Shellie McMurdo
- 7. Insidious Patterns
- An Integrative Analysis of Blumhouse's Most Important Franchise
- Todd K. Platts, Victoria McCollum and Mathias Clasen
- 8. The Purge
- Violence and Religion - A Toxic Cocktail
- Amanda Rutherford and Sarah Baker
- 9. Happy Death Day
- Beyond the Neo-slasher Cycle
- Sotiris Petridis
- 10. Haunted Networks
- Transparency and Exposure in Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web
- Zak Bronson
- 11. Shifting Shapes
- Blumhouse's Halloween (2018) and the New Ethos of Slasher Remakes
- Guy Spriggs
- 12. 'Disobedient Women' and Malicious Men
- A Comparative Assessment of the Politics of Black Christmas (1974) and (2019)
- John Kavanagh
- 13. What Lies Behind the White Hood
- Looking at Horror Through a Realistic Lens in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman
- Allison Schottenstein
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781786838650
- 1786838656
- OCLC:
- 1338679098
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