"Contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. Scholars of cinema studies, horror, and ecology will find this book of particular interest"--
Contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Cravens work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. Scholars of cinema studies, horror, and ecology will find this book of particular interest.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni and John Darowski
Part I: Space, Time, Urbanities
1.Destabilizing Safety: Space, Place, and Risk in Cravens Last House on the
Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Red Eye. Jacob Babb
2.What If? The Unrealized in Wes Cravens The Twilight Zone (1985) and
Nightmare Cafe. Emiliano Aguilar
3.Ruined Landscapes, the EcoGothic and Eco-Horror in the Early Films of Wes
Craven: Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, Deadly Blessing, Swamp
Thing, The Hills Have Eyes II. Michael Stock
4.Nowhere Is Safe: Suburban Terror in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shocker and
Scream. Daniel P. Compora
Part II: Traumatic Aspects
5. Teenage alienation and Fractured Identities: Re-evaluating Wes Cravens
My Soul to Take. Reece Goodall
6.Wes Craven and BIPOC Horror: Contrasting The People Under the Stairs with
The Possession of Joel Delaney. Joshua W. Katz, Taksala Abeygunawardena,
Natalie OReilly, Brenan R.R. Smith and Todd G. Morrison
7.Dismembering Cravens The Last House on the Left: Excavating Structures of
Whiteness in the American Horror Film. Stephanie Chang
Part III: The Authorial Voice
8. Not in My Movie: Parodic Transformations of Wes Cravens Final Girl in
the Narrative and Soundtrack of Scream. Joel Kirk
9. Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Cravens Television Films. Will Dodson
10.Practical Magic: The Role of Practical Special Effects in Creating Fear.
Kat Albrecht
11.The Most Dreadful of Horrors: Studio Interference and Authorship in The
Fireworks Woman (1975), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) and Cursed (2005).
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Eduardo Veteri
12. Recombinant Narrative: Wes Craven, Adaptation, and Swamp Thing. John
Darowski
Part IV: Sociological/Philosophical Inquiries
13.Wes Cravens Monsters of Capitalism. Eric Brinkman
14.Beyond Freddys Revenge: Wes Cravens Slasher Films as Queer Texts. Ezra
Brain and Olivia Wood
15.Transgressing the Boundaries of Faith: Belief Systems, Evil and the Human
Subject in Wes Craven Films. Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh
16.Rubber Reality and its Variations in the Films of Wes Craven. Brian
Keiper
17.Screaming for Relevance: Reflecting on Scream 4 in the Age of
Influencers, Andrew Smith
About the Contributors
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is professor of international horror film at Universidad de Buenos AiresFacultad de Filosofķa y Letras.
John Darowski is a PhD candidate in comparative humanities at the University of Louisville.
