Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio syste
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Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film Edited by Wickham Clayton University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Introduction, Selection and editorial content © Wickham Clayton 2015 Chapters © Contributors 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49646-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-57345-5 ISBN 978-1-137-49647-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-49647-8 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
This book is dedicated to Wicklet, the person who sneaks into my room at night
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Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors introduction: The Collection Awakes Wickham Clayton
Part I
The Birth, Death and Revenge of the Hollywood Slasher
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1 (In)Stability of Point of View in When a Stranger Calls and Eyes of a Stranger David Roche
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2 Undermining the Moneygrubbers, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Friday the 13th Part V Wickham Clayton
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3 I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Series Karra Shimabukuro
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4 Candyman and Saw: Reimagining the Slasher Film through Urban Gothic Stacey Abbott
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Part II
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Older, Darker and Self-Aware
5 Franchise Legacy and Neo-slasher Conventions in Halloween H20 Andrew Patrick Nelson
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6 Roses Are Red, Violence Is Too: Exploring Stylistic Excess in Valentine Mark Rich
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