While existing work on modern horror tends to focus on a small range of
exceptional examples of the genre, and generally finds value in the films
through the application of sociopolitical, psychoanalytic, or other theoretical
frameworks, the broader trend of the for-profit Hollywood studio produced
and/or distributed texts and the elements of their construction have been
largely ignored. Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film aims to fill this
existing gap in scholarship on horror. This book collects essays from a range of
academics to consider the place of some of these films within the history of
the slasher, how their construction provides a more complex experience than
initially conceived, what this can tell us about the genre, and how a study of
form can support and aid theoretical analyses.
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