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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than thirty years, Friday the 13th has proven to be unstoppable. For its creators, Friday the 13th has been anything but 'bad luck,' generating nearly $600 million in domestic box office receipts and turning an unstoppable, machete-wielding madman into a true pop-culture icon. Inspired by the critically-acclaimed book, we'll take viewers behind the mask on an epic journey into the making of the landmark horror franchise.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
Wallflower Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American heartland. Drawing on his experience with German...
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) and Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), giallo films influenced the American slasher films of the 1980s and attracted an increasingly large fandom. Despite gialli's worldwide popularity, serious examination...