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Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium. By respecting seminal works in the field, it has a particular concentration on the canons of slashers, the Conjuring universe, the Saw franchise, the world of the latest Scream(s), M. Night Shyamalan’s storyworld, the Blumhouse model in horror, the It duology, the Halloween franchise, recent debates on aesthetics in horror, and the issue of elevated horror. It presents specific cases to discover contemporary nightmares within critical examinations. Indeed, this book is designed for researchers, scholars, and academicians.

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Author:   Tuna Tetik ,  Dilay Özgüven Tetik
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.232kg
ISBN:  

9783631898581

ISBN 10:   3631898584
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   25 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Tuna Tetik/Dilay Özgüven Tetik: Preface: Introduction to Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema – Kaya Özkaracalar:Foreword – Kaya Özkaracalar: Post- Classical, Early Modern American Horror Films – Dilay Özgüven Tetik: The Conjuring Movies (2013– 2021) at the Center of the Horror Universe: Exploring the Structure of the Haunted World of James Wan – Tuna Tetik: Anatomy of Jigsaw: The Moral Code and the Legacy of John Kramer in the Saw Franchise – Dilay Özgüven Tetik: Back to the Original: A Contextual Analysis of Scream (1996) and Scream (2022) – Ece Arıhan: Redefining the Making of a Genre: A Thorough Investigation of the Blumhouse Model – Tuna Tetik :Horror Meets the Superhero: The Shyamalan Effect in Horror – Burak Bayülgen: The Shell That Pennywise Tried but Failed to Shatter: It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) – Ece Arıhan: Subverting the Genre: The Evolution of the Final Girl in the Halloween Franchise – Savaş Arslan: New Names to Old Villains: Art- , Post- , and Elevated Horrors of the Contemporary – Sertaç Koyuncu: Hellraisers, Cenobites, and Beyond: Masochistic Aesthetic in the Horror Film – List of Tables – Biographies of the Authors.

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Tuna Tetik is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahçeşehir University. He received his doctoral degree at Bahçeşehir University, Cinema and Media Research Ph.D. program, and directed short films and a documentary that received international awards. His research interests are superheroes and comics, horror films, transmedia studios, film genres, video-on-demand services, fan culture and video games. He edited several international books. Tetik is currently teaching several undergraduate courses on digital editing and film production, and graduate courses on screenwriting. Dilay Özgüven Tetik earned her doctoral degree at Bahçeşehir University, Cinema and Media Research Ph.D. program with her thesis on the evolution of Turkish crime-based reality programs. Özgüven Tetik has working experience in painting, illustration, video, and photography. She received her M.A. degree at Sabancı University and has experience in movies as the first assistant director. She lectured courses in the Communication Design Department at Bahçeşehir University. Her research interests are reality television, crime, horror films, and game studies.

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