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The Postmodern Slasher Film

By (author) Steve Jones

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Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from their predecessors because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche and deconstruction. The Postmodern Slasher Film challenges those assumptions by demonstrating that those same traits have been present in the slasher subgenre since its 1980s boom-period. This book instead argues that postmodern slasher films are more pertinently distinguished by their tone, which is characterised by self-consciousness, duplicity, cynicism and fatalism.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming. We are not accepting backorders for this item yet
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press
Published date | 30 Jun 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 269
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-3995-3709-4
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BISAC | performing arts / film & video / direction & production


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