Horror Franchise Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367183271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Mark McKenna; William Proctor

Opis

This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.

Spis treści

Introduction. The Death and Resurrection Show: Horror Franchise Cinema and the Romanticization of Cult;  1. Building Imaginary Horror Worlds: Transfictional Storytelling and the Universal Monster Franchise Cycle;  Section I: Slasher and Post-Slashers;  2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A ‘Peculiar, Erratic’ Franchise;  3. If I Were a Carpenter: Prestige and Authorship in the Halloween Franchise;  4. If Nancy Doesn’t Wake Up Screaming: The Elm Street Series as Recurring Nightmare;  5. Allowing ‘Us Just to LIVE There’: Atmosphere and Audience Evaluation of the Alien Film Series;  Section II: Millennial Franchises;  6. Cut-Price Creeps: The Blumhouse Model of Horror Franchise Management;  7. When the Subtext Becomes Text: The Purge Takes on the American Nightmare;  Section III: Cult Franchises;  8. “What Film is Your Film Like”? Negotiating Authenticity in the Distributive Seriality of the Zombi Franchise;  9. Horror Heroine or Symbolic Sacrifice: Defining the I Spit on Your Grave Franchise as Horror;  Section IV: Complicating Franchising;  10. Seriality between the Horror Franchise and the Horror Anthology Film;  11. When is a Franchise Not a Franchise: The Case of Let the Right One In;  12. ‘A Match Made in Heaven (or Hell)’: Franchise Experiments Between the Horror Film Genre and Virtual Reality Media (2014-2020)