{"product_id":"9781399537100-the-postmodern-slasher-film","title":"The Postmodern Slasher Film","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDebunks the prevailing idea that the postmodern slasher film is distinguished by the employment of intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction.\u003cbr\u003eScream 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.The Postmodern Slasher Film 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56605243441526,"sku":"9781399537100","price":24.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40627164.jpg?v=1775707208","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399537100-the-postmodern-slasher-film","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}