Games of Terror

Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle

Vera Dika (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2025
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-258-7 (ISBN)

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This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the visual field, and by a recuring combination of character and plot functions. The Stalker Film responds to an ongoing cultural conflict narrativised as the fight to protect self and community, and does so within a specific 1978–81 historical period. As a postmodern work, the surface material of the Stalker Film alludes to past and ongoing cultural forms, to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, for example, to the theories of Sigmund Freud, or even to Laura Mulvey on the male gaze. These forms are not used to enlighten but are exploited to maximum visceral effect. Positioned at the rise of the Reagan era, the Stalker Film questions the Horror Film genre and engages a mass audience response.

Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Pressure of a Name: Slashers, Stalkers, Semantics
Preface
The Stalker Film and Repeatability
Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle
Introduction: Methods for Classification and Analysis
Halloween: The Beginning of the Stalker Cycle
Paradigms: The Basic Elements of the Stalker Formula
The Most Successful Recombinations: Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2
The Films of the Stalker Cycle
Conclusion: A Psychological and Sociological Evaluation
Selected Writings on the Stalker Film
An Introduction to the Selected Writings on the Stalker Film
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
To Destroy the Sign
Endnotes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.8.2025
Reihe/Serie	Horror Studies
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83772-258-7 / 1837722587
ISBN-13	978-1-83772-258-7 / 9781837722587
Zustand	Neuware