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Book Synopsis
Richard Nowell, currently lecturing in Prague, has taught for the University of Miami, University of Salford, UK, University of East Anglia, UK, and University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has essays published or forthcoming in, among others, the Journal of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Post Script, and the New Review of Film and Television Studies, and he is currently guest editing a special English-language edition of the Czech Replublic's leading film studies journal, Iluminace, on the subject of genre and the movie business.
Trade Review"Richard Nowell's meticulously researched, engagingly presented and forcefully argued study offers new insights into how films, filmmaking and film marketing operated in the North American film industry of the 1970s and early 1980s. It is an exemplary piece of work, which will hopefully inspire other scholars to work along similar lines." - Peter Kramer, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of East Anglia, UK; author of The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars (2005)."
Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Co-Ed Frenzy"; Chapter One; "There's more than one way to lose your Heart":; The Teen Slasher Film - Film-type, Industry Strategies and Film Cycle; Chapter Two; A Slay Ride to Small-Town U.S.A.:; The Emergence and Early Development of the Teen Slasher Film - Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978); Chapter Three; "They were Warned... They are Doomed":; The Development of the Teen Slasher Film, Variant One - Friday the 13th (1980); Chapter Four; Murder on the Dance Floor:; The Development of the Teen Slasher Film, Variant Two - Prom Night (1980); Chapter Five; The Animal House on Sorority Row:; The Establishment of the Teen Slasher Film, 1980-1981; Conclusion: "Time after Time"; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.
