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Nightmares of contemporary horror cinema / Tuna Tetik, Dilay Özgüven Tetik (eds.).
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 N544 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Peter Lang GmbH, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium. By respecting seminal works in the field, it has a particular concentration on the canons of slashers, the Conjuring universe, the Saw franchise, the world of the latest Scream(s), M. Night Shyamalan's storyworld, the Blumhouse model in horror, the It duology, the Halloween franchise, recent debates on aesthetics in horror, and the issue of elevated horror. It presents specific cases to discover contemporary nightmares within critical examinations." -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Post-classical, early modern American horror films / Kaya Özkaracalar
- The Conjuring movies (2013-2021) at the center of the horror universe: exploring the structure of the haunted world of James Wan / Dilay Özgüven Tetik
- Anatomy of jigsaw: the moral code and the legacy of John Kramer in the Saw franchise / Tuna Tetik
- Back to the original: a contextual analysis of Scream (1996) and Scream (2022) / Dilay Özgüven Tetik
- Redefining the making of a genre: a thorough investigation of the Blumhouse model / Ece Arıhan
- Horror meets the superhero: the Shyamalan effect in horror / Tuna Tetik
- The shell that pennywise tried but failed to shatter: It (2017) and It chapter two (2019) / Burak Bayülgen
- Subverting the genre: the evolution of the final girl in the Halloween franchise / Ece Arıhan
- New names to old villains: art-, post-, and elevated horrors of the contemporary / Savaş Arslan
- Hellraisers, cenobites, and beyond: masochistic aesthetic in the horror film / Sertaç Koyuncu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9783631898581
- 3631898584
- OCLC:
- 1443481609
- Publisher Number:
- 90104359608
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