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The Postmodern Slasher Film

Jones, Steve
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399537094
Publisert
2025-06-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Jones, Steve

Biografisk notat

Steve Jones is Assistant Professor in Media and Film at Northumbria University, where he leads the Horror Studies Research Group. His research principally focuses on sex, violence, ethics and selfhood within horror and pornography. He is the author of The Metamodern Slasher Film (2024), Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw (2013), and his work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Sexualities, and Film-Philosophy. He is a founding member of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups for Horror, Film-Philosophy and Screening Sex. He is also on the editorial board of Porn Studies journal, and the 21st Century Horror and Hidden Horror Histories book series. For more information, please visit www.drstevejones.co.uk.

The Postmodern Slasher Film

Jones, Steve
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Jones, Steve
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Conventional wisdom suggests that if you’ve seen one slasher film, then you’ve seen them all. Jones demolishes this notion by paying such close, thoughtful attention to one particular form of this subgenre that our understanding of slasher films as a whole undergoes a major transformation. We see these films anew.

Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness

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.
Les mer
Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The ‘Postmodern’ Slasher Film 2. Intertextuality and Metafiction in the Postmodern Slasher Film 3. Tracing Intertextuality and Metafiction Back to the Boom-Period 4. Parody and the Slasher Subgenre 5. Deconstruction, Ontological Doubt and Authorial Control 6. Irony, Duplicity and Superiority 7. Epistemic Doubt in the Postmodern Slasher Whodunit 8. Callousness, Insularity, Presentism and Fatalism Conclusion: Legacies of the Postmodern Slasher Film References Filmography Index
Les mer
Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction

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Conventional wisdom suggests that if you’ve seen one slasher film, then you’ve seen them all. Jones demolishes this notion by paying such close, thoughtful attention to one particular form of this subgenre that our understanding of slasher films as a whole undergoes a major transformation. We see these films anew.

Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness

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.
Les mer
Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The ‘Postmodern’ Slasher Film 2. Intertextuality and Metafiction in the Postmodern Slasher Film 3. Tracing Intertextuality and Metafiction Back to the Boom-Period 4. Parody and the Slasher Subgenre 5. Deconstruction, Ontological Doubt and Authorial Control 6. Irony, Duplicity and Superiority 7. Epistemic Doubt in the Postmodern Slasher Whodunit 8. Callousness, Insularity, Presentism and Fatalism Conclusion: Legacies of the Postmodern Slasher Film References Filmography Index
Les mer
Debunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399537094
Publisert
2025-06-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Jones, Steve

Biografisk notat

Steve Jones is Assistant Professor in Media and Film at Northumbria University, where he leads the Horror Studies Research Group. His research principally focuses on sex, violence, ethics and selfhood within horror and pornography. He is the author of The Metamodern Slasher Film (2024), Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw (2013), and his work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Sexualities, and Film-Philosophy. He is a founding member of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups for Horror, Film-Philosophy and Screening Sex. He is also on the editorial board of Porn Studies journal, and the 21st Century Horror and Hidden Horror Histories book series. For more information, please visit www.drstevejones.co.uk.

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