Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
(In)Stability of Point of View in When a Stranger Calls and Eyes of a Stranger ....Pages 17-36
Undermining the Moneygrubbers, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Friday the 13 th  Part V....Pages 37-50
I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Series....Pages 51-66
 Candyman and Saw: Reimagining the Slasher Film through Urban Gothic....Pages 67-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Franchise Legacy and Neo-slasher Conventions in Halloween H20....Pages 81-91
Roses Are Red, Violence Is Too: Exploring Stylistic Excess in Valentine ....Pages 92-105
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....Pages 106-117
The Killer Who Never Was: Complex Storytelling, the Saw Saga and the Shifting Moral Alignment of Puzzle Film Horror....Pages 118-130
Resurrecting Carrie ....Pages 131-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Reframing Parody and Intertextuality in Scream: Formal and Theoretical Approaches to the ‘Postmodern’ Slasher....Pages 149-160
Crises of Identification in the Supernatural Slasher: The Resurrection of the Supernatural Slasher Villain....Pages 161-179
‘Come on, Boy, Bring It!’: Embracing Queer Erotic Aesthetics in Marcus Nispel’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)....Pages 180-194
Beyond Surveillance: Questions of the Real in the Neopostmodern Horror Film....Pages 195-212
The Slasher, the Final Girl and the Anti-Denouement....Pages 213-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-254