- 323 pages
- English
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A Critical Companion to Wes Craven
About this book
In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven's extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ecology will find this book particularly interesting.
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Yes, you can access A Critical Companion to Wes Craven by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,John Darowski in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Space, Time, Urbanities
- Destabilizing Safety
- “What If?”
- Ruined Landscapes, the Ecogothic and Ecohorror in the Early Films of Wes Craven
- Nowhere Is Safe
- Traumatic Aspects
- Teenage Alienation and Fractured Identities
- Wes Craven and BIPOC Horror
- Dismembering Craven’s The Last House on the Left
- The Authorial Voice
- “Not in My Movie”
- Welcome to Prime Time
- Practical Magic
- The Most Dreadful of Horrors
- Recombinant Narrative
- Sociological/Philosophical Inquiries
- Wes Craven’s Monsters of Capitalism
- Beyond Freddy’s Revenge
- Transgressing the Boundaries of Faith
- Rubber Reality and Its Variations in the Films of Wes Craven
- Screaming for Relevance
- Index
- About the Contributors