The Postmodern Slasher Film

by Jones, Steve
ISBN: 9781399537100
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Overview

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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Jones, Steve
  • ISBN: 9781399537100
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 2026
Language: English