{"product_id":"the-postmodern-slasher-film-steve-jones-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399537091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399537094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Steve Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46974579802367,"sku":"9781399537094","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3ab7e674-7b9f-4bc1-85a1-c18be58fb1e3.jpg?v=1750875445","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-postmodern-slasher-film-steve-jones-9781399537094","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}