Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema
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- ISBN 9783631898581
- Weight: 232g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
