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.
| ISBN: | 9781399537100 |
| Publication date: | 31st July 2026 |
| Author: | Steve Jones |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Film: styles and genres Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror Film history, theory or criticism |
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.
The Postmodern Slasher Film features in the following genres: Film: styles and genres, Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror, Film history, theory or criticism
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The Postmodern Slasher Film was written by Steve Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press
The Postmodern Slasher Film has 272 pages
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