Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema

Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium. It presents specific cases to discover contemporary nightmares within critical examinations. 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.