Blumhouse productions : the new house of horror /

"Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror provides the first sustained academic inquiry into one of the biggest production companies currently working in horror film production. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines explore various facets of the company, which is known for such hit fr...

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Weitere Verfasser: Platts, Todd K. (HerausgeberIn), McCollum, Victoria (HerausgeberIn), Clasen, Mathias F. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2022.
Schriftenreihe:Horror studies.
Online-Zugang:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3313475
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Victoria McCollum, Mathias Clasen and Todd K. Platts
  • Blumhouse at the box office, 2009-2018 / Todd K. Platts
  • 'Those things you see through' : Get out, Signifyin', and Hollywood's commodification of African-American independent cinema / Stefan Sereda
  • Haunted bodies, haunted houses / Racheal Harris
  • Gothixity : evoking the Gothic through new forms of toxic masculinity / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
  • Space invaders : aliens and recessionary anxieties in Dark skies / Craig Ian Mann
  • The (Blum)house that found-footage horror built / Shellie McMurdo
  • Insidious patterns : an integrative analysis of Blumhouse's most important franchise / Todd K. Platts, Victoria McCollum and Mathias Clasen
  • The purge : violence and religion, a toxic cocktail / Amanda Rutherford and Sarah Baker
  • Happy death day : beyond the neo-slasher cycle / Sotiris Petridis
  • Haunted networks : transparency and exposure in Unfriended and Unfriended : dark web / Zak Bronson
  • Shifting shapes : Blumhouse's Halloween (2018) and the new ethos of slasher remakes / Guy Spriggs
  • 'Disobedient women' and malicious men : a comparative assessment of the politics of Black Christmas (1974) and (2019) / John Kavanagh
  • What lies behind the white hood : looking at horror through a realistic lens in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman / Allison Schottenstein.