{"product_id":"the-postmodern-slasher-film-9781399537094","title":"The Postmodern Slasher Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScream\u003c\/i\u003e reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. It has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from preceding phases because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Slasher Film\u003c\/i\u003e challenges those assumptions. I evince that these traits were present in the slasher subgenre?s 1980s boom-period. I then demonstrate that these films are more pertinently distinguished by their tone, which is characterised by self-consciousness, duplicity, cynicism, fatalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus, this book argues that the postmodern slasher is a distinctive phase in the subgenre?s development, but for reasons that have been overlooked to-date. I will conclude by making a case for the continued pertinence of this phase by considering the legacies of the postmodern slasher?s distinctive tonal intervention in the subgenre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138260205911,"sku":"9781399537094","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-postmodern-slasher-film-9781399537094","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}