Horror franchise cinema /
"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. Comprising twelve chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cin...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in film studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The death and resurrection show: horror franchise cinema and the romanticization of cult / William Proctor and Marc McKenna
- Building imaginary horror worlds: transfictional storytelling and the Universal monster franchise cycle / William Proctor
- Section I: Slasher and post-slashers
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: a 'peculiar, erratic' franchise / Mark Bernard
- If I were a Carpenter: prestige and authorship in the Halloween franchise / Murray Leeder
- If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming: the Elm Street series as recurring nightmare / Steve Jones
- Allowing 'Us just to LIVE there': atmosphere and audience evaluation of the Alien film series / Kate Egan
- Section II: Millennial franchises
- Cut-price creeps: the Blumhouse model of horror franchise management / Todd Platts
- When the subtext becomes text: the Purge takes on the American nightmare / Stacey Abbott
- Section III: Cult franchises
- "What film is your film like"? negotiating authenticity in the distributive seriality of the Zombi Franchise / Mark McKenna
- Horror heroine or symbolic sacrifice: defining the I spit on your grave franchise as horror / Sarah Cleary
- Section IV: Complicating franchising
- Seriality between the horror franchise and the horror anthology film
- When is a franchise not a franchise: the case of let the right one in / Simon Bacon
- 'A match made in heaven (or hell)': franchise experiments between the horror film genre and virtual reality media (2014-2020) / Sara Thomas.
