Description
The term ""slasher film"" was common parlance by the mid-1980s but the horror subgenre it describes was at least a decade old by then--formerly referred to as ""stalker,"" ""psycho"" or ""slice-'em-up."" Examining 74 movies--from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) to Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)--the author identifies the characteristic elements of the subgenre while tracing changes in narrative patterns over the decades. The slasher canon is divided into three eras: the classical (1974-1993), the self-referential (1994-2000) and the neoslasher cycle (2000-2013).
Author: Sotiris Petridis
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781476674315
ISBN10: 1476674310
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Horror
- Literary Criticism | General
Author: Sotiris Petridis
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781476674315
ISBN10: 1476674310
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Horror
- Literary Criticism | General
About the Author
Sotiris Petridis is a postdoc researcher at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests are film and television genres, screenwriting theory and practice, audiovisual rights, and the new ways of film and television promotion. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy.