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Life Lessons from Slasher Films
Jessica Robinson
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Description for Life Lessons from Slasher Films
Hardcover. Num Pages: 250 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and moralists who look down upon the genre, slasher films are more than just movies filled with gory mayhem. Such films can actually serve a purpose and offer their audiences something more than split skulls and severed heads. In Life Lessons from Slasher Films, Jessica Robinson looks at representative works that have been scaring audiences for decades—from Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal shocker, Psycho, to the cult classic Black Christmas and iconic ... Read more
Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and moralists who look down upon the genre, slasher films are more than just movies filled with gory mayhem. Such films can actually serve a purpose and offer their audiences something more than split skulls and severed heads. In Life Lessons from Slasher Films, Jessica Robinson looks at representative works that have been scaring audiences for decades—from Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal shocker, Psycho, to the cult classic Black Christmas and iconic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810885028
SKU
V9780810885028
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99-15
About Jessica Robinson
Jessica Robinson received her Master’s Degree from the University of Wyoming. She is the author of several novels under the pseudonym Pembroke Sinclair.
Reviews for Life Lessons from Slasher Films
For those smarty-pants who approach their horror entertainment from an academic perspective….Armed with her bushel of horror touchstones, Robinson divides her 200-page treatise into six chapters, each covering a particular lesson, from ‘Listen to Your Elders’ to ‘Teens Never Learn’….much of Life Lessons from Slasher Films is similarly thought-provoking…. 4 out of 5 Skulls.
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