{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-james-wan-9781476683355","title":"The Cinema of James Wan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history, his films breaking box office records worldwide. Yet there is little scholarship on Wan''s work. This collection of new essays fills the gap with contributions from around the globe offering analysis of his film and television productions, including \u003ci\u003eSaw\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eAquaman\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and The Conjuring Universe franchise, along with less well-known works like \u003ci\u003eDeath Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eDead Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and his pilot for the new \u003ci\u003eMacGyver\u003c\/i\u003e series. For the first time, Wan''s films are explored in-depth from wide range of critical perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: James Wan, Auteur\t\u003cbr\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards\u003cbr\u003eMigratory Anxieties and Diasporic Communities\u003cbr\u003eInsidious Identity Politics: The Horror of Home\t\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Wynne-Walsh\u003cbr\u003eAquaman as ­Meta-Utopia: A Nozickian Reading\t\u003cbr\u003eAdam Lovasz\u003cbr\u003eOccupy and Replace: A Migratory Reading of Possession in The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: Creation\t\u003cbr\u003eShastri Akella\u003cbr\u003eAquaman and American White Supremacy\t\u003cbr\u003eLuis A. Grande Branger\u003cbr\u003eA Gendered Cinema of Violence and Horror\u003cbr\u003eMake Technology Suffer: The Hypermasculine in Death Sentence, Furious 7 and MacGyver\t\u003cbr\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns\u003cbr\u003eState of Exception in Saw and Death Sentence: Choose Your Type of Antihero\t\u003cbr\u003eEmiliano Aguilar\u003cbr\u003eThe Absent\/Omnipresent Female Voice in Dead Silence\t\u003cbr\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns\u003cbr\u003eWan and the Classical (New) Horror Film\u003cbr\u003eJames Wan's Dead Space: The Conjuring Films, Siegfried Kracauer and the Revenge of Physical Reality\t\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Schulze\u003cbr\u003eChromatic Hauntings: The Uncanny Color Design of James Wan's Horror Films\t\u003cbr\u003eCody Parish\u003cbr\u003eSuburban Gothic and Cosmic Horror in Insidious\t\u003cbr\u003eElisabete Cristina Simões Lopes\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you want to play hide and clap?\" The Jump Scares of James Wan's Supernatural Horror Films\t\u003cbr\u003eBrandon R. Grafius\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040484589911,"sku":"9781476683355","price":51.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476683355.jpg?v=1750946900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cinema-of-james-wan-9781476683355","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}