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The anatomy of the slasher film : a theoretical analysis /

Examining 74 movies, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) to Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), the author identifies the characteristic elements of the subgenre while tracing changes in narrative patterns over the decades. The slasher canon is divided into three eras, the classical (1974-1993), the self-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petridis, Sotiris, 1990- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019].
Subjects:
Slasher films > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • A theoretical and historical approach to slasher films
  • Slasher films : a horror subgenre
  • The semantic/syntactic elements of slasher films
  • The cycles of slasher film subgenre
  • An epilog to the theoretical and historical approach
  • The classical cycle of the slasher film
  • The normality of the classical cycle
  • The other of the classical cycle
  • The final survivors of the classical cycle
  • The victims of the classical cycle
  • An epilog on the classical cycle
  • The self-referential cycle of slasher films
  • The normality of the self-referential cycle
  • The other of the self-referential cycle
  • The final survivors of the self-referential cycle
  • The victims of the self-referential cycle
  • An epilog on the self-referential cycle
  • The neoslasher cycle of the slasher film
  • The normality of the neoslasher cycle
  • The other of the neoslasher cycle
  • The final survivors of the neoslasher cycle
  • The victims of the neoslasher cycle
  • An epilog on the neoslasher cycle.