The Postmodern Slasher Film, (Paperback)
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| Management number | 240709325 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$11.98 | Model Number | 240709325 | ||
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<p><i>Scream</i> 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. </p><p><i>The Postmodern Slasher Film</i> 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.</p>
- The Postmodern Slasher Film, (Paperback)
- Author: Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN: 9781399537100
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2026-07-31
- Page Count: 272
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Art, Music, and Photography |
| Publication date | July, 2026 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Subgenre | Film |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product height | 9.21 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.25 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Performing Arts |
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