Horror Franchise Cinema (Paperback, 1)

IntroductionThe Death and Resurrection Show: Horror Franchise Cinema and the Romanticization of CultWilliam Proctor and Mark McKenna 1. Building Imaginary Horror Worlds: Transfictional Storytelling and the Universal Monster Franchise CycleWilliam Proctor Section I: Slasher and Post-Slashers 2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A ‘Peculiar, Erratic’ FranchiseMark Bernard 3. If I Were a Carpenter: Prestige and Authorship in the Halloween FranchiseMurray Leeder 4. If Nancy Doesn’t Wake Up Screaming: The Elm Street Series as Recurring NightmareSteve Jones 5. Allowing ‘Us Just to LIVE There’: Atmosphere and Audience Evaluation of the Alien Film SeriesKate Egan Section II: Millennial Franchises 6. Cut-Price Creeps: The Blumhouse Model of Horror Franchise ManagementTodd Platts 7. When the Subtext Becomes Text: The Purge Takes on the American NightmareStacey Abbott Section III: Cult Franchises 8. “What Film is Your Film Like”? Negotiating Authenticity in the Distributive Seriality of the Zombi FranchiseMark McKenna 9. Horror Heroine or Symbolic Sacrifice: Defining the I Spit on Your Grave Franchise as HorrorSarah Cleary Section IV: Complicating Franchising 10. Seriality between the Horror Franchise and the Horror Anthology FilmDavid Church 11. When is a Franchise Not a Franchise: The Case of Let the Right One InSimon Bacon 12. ‘A Match Made in Heaven (or Hell)’: Franchise Experiments Between the Horror Film Genre and Virtual Reality Media (2014-2020)Sarah Thomas