{"product_id":"the-postmodern-slasher-film-9781399537094","title":"The Postmodern Slasher Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eScream\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Slasher Film\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJones, Steve:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Steve Jones\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in Media and Film at Northumbria University, where he leads the Horror Studies Research Group. His research principally focuses on sex, violence, ethics and selfhood within horror and pornography. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Metamodern Slasher Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), \u003ci\u003eTorture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), and his work has been published in \u003ci\u003eFeminist Media Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Review of Film and Television Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSexualities\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFilm-Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a founding member of the BAFTSS Special Interest Groups for Horror, Film-Philosophy and Screening Sex. He is also on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003ePorn Studies\u003c\/i\u003e journal, and the \u003ci\u003e21st Century Horror\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHidden Horror Histories\u003c\/i\u003e book series. For more information, please visit \u003cb\u003ewww.drstevejones.co.uk\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424401490194,"sku":"9781399537094","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38aecb0b-1013-4694-b23f-55728e020ad0.jpg?v=1751374681","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-postmodern-slasher-film-9781399537094","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}