Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

by Wickham Clayton (Editor)

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

270 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2015

Reviews

[Roel · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not all chapters were as interesting or convincing, most of them were quite insightful and while I might disagree with some points, it introduced me to different approaches to the slasher film that I wasn’t aware of before.

[Madeline Diemer · Rating 4 out of 5]

the scream chapter was so so good