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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sotiris Petridis |
| ISBN: | 9781476674315 1476674310 |
| OCLC Number: | 1081434970 |
| Description: | viii, 170 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Sotiris Petridis. |
Abstract:
Examining 74 movies - from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) to Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) - this book identifies the characteristic elements of the subgenre while tracing changes in narrative
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