A Critical Companion to Wes Craven

John Darowski; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

doi:10.5771/9781666919073

Summary

In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ecology will find this book particularly interesting.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1906-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1907-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 312
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. Destabilizing Safety No access
2. “What If?” No access
3. Ruined Landscapes, the Ecogothic and Ecoh‌‌orror in the Early Films‌‌ of Wes Craven No access
4. Nowhere Is Safe No access
1. Teenage Alienation and Fractured Identities No access
2. Wes Craven and BIPOC Horror No access
3. Dismembering Craven’s The Last House on the Left No access
1. “Not in My Movie” No access
2. Welcome to Prime Time No access
3. Practical Magic No access
4. The Most Dreadful of Horrors No access
5. Recombinant Narrative No access
1. Wes Craven’s Monsters of Capitalism No access
2. Beyond Freddy’s Revenge No access
3. Transgressing the Boundaries of Faith No access
4. Rubber Reality and Its Variations in the Films of Wes Craven No access
5. Screaming for Relevance No access
Index No access Pages 303 - 306
About the Contributors No access Pages 307 - 312