Style and form in the Hollywood slasher film /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the collection awakes
- The birth, death, and resurrection of the slasher film. (in)stability of point of view in when a stranger calls and eyes of a stranger / David Roche
- Undermining the moneygrubbers, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Friday the 13th part v / Wickham Clayton
- I framed Freddy: functional aesthetics in the a Nightmare on Elm Street series / Karra Shimabukuro
- Candyman and Saw: re-imagining the slasher film through urban gothic / Stacey Abbott
- Older, darker, and self-aware. Franchise legacy and neo-slasher conventions in Halloween h20 / Andrew Patrick Nelson
- Roses are red, violence is too: exploring stylistic excess in Valentine / Mark Richard Adams
- Puzzles, contraptions, and the highly elaborate moment: the inevitability of death in the grand slasher narratives of the Final destination and Saw series of films / Ian Conrich
- The killer who never was: complex storytelling, the Saw series, and the shifting moral alignment of puzzle film horror / Matthew Freeman
- Resurrecting Carrie / Gary Bettinson
- Form vs. theory. Parody, pastiche and intertextuality in Scream: formal and theoretical approaches to the postmodern slasher / Fran Pheasant-Kelly
- Crises of identification in the supernatural slasher: the resurrection of the supernatural slasher villain / Jessica Balanzategui
- Queer erotic aesthetics in Marcus Nispel's The Texas chainsaw massacre / Darren Elliott-Smith
- Beyond surveillance: questions of the real in the neo-postmodern horror film / Dana Och
- The slasher, the final girl, and the anti-denouement / Janet Staiger.