The cinema of James Wan critical essays

Introduction: James Wan, auteur / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards -- Insidious identity politics : the horror of home / Rebecca Wynne-Walsh -- Aquaman as meta-utopia : a Nozickian reading / Adam Lovasz -- Occupy and replace : a migratory reading of possession in Conjuring 2 and An...

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Weitere Verfasser: Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel (HerausgeberIn), Edwards, Matthew (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: James Wan, auteur / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards -- Insidious identity politics : the horror of home / Rebecca Wynne-Walsh -- Aquaman as meta-utopia : a Nozickian reading / Adam Lovasz -- Occupy and replace : a migratory reading of possession in Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: creation / Shastri Akella -- Aquaman and American white supremacy / Luis A. Grande Branger -- Make technology suffer : the hypermasculine in Death sentence, Furious 7 and MacGyver / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- State of exception in Saw and Death sentence : choose your type of antihero / Emiliano Aguilar -- The absent/omnipresent female voice in Dead silence / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- James Wan's dead space : the Conjuring films, Siegfried Kracauer and the revenge of physical reality / Joshua Schulze -- Chromatic hauntings : the uncanny color design of James Wan's horror films / Cody Parish -- Suburban gothic and cosmic horror in Insidious / Elisabete Cristina Simões Lopes -- "Do you want to play hide and clap?" : The jump scares of James Wan's supernatural horror films / Brandon R. Grafius.
"An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history, his films breaking box office records worldwide. Yet there is little scholarship on Wan's work. This collection of new essays fills the gap with contributions from around the globe offering analysis of his film and television productions, including Saw (2004), Aquaman (2018) and The Conjuring Universe franchise, along with less well-known works like Death Sentence (2007), Dead Silence (2007) and his pilot for the new MacGyver series. For the first time, Wan's films are explored in-depth from wide range of critical perspectives"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:vii, 213 Seiten
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ISBN:9781476683355
978-1-4766-8335-5