An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history. 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.
An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history. 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.
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)-Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina). He teaches courses on international horror film and has written about the Spanish horror TV series Historias para no Dormir and the Frankenstein bicentennial. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Matthew Edwards is a primary school teacher and freelance writer from Cirencester, England. He is the author or editor of numerous books on world cinema.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: James Wan, Auteur Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards Migratory Anxieties and Diasporic Communities 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 The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: Creation Shastri Akella Aquaman and American White Supremacy Luis A. Grande Branger A Gendered Cinema of Violence and Horror 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 Wan and the Classical (New) Horror Film 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 About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: James Wan, Auteur Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards Migratory Anxieties and Diasporic Communities 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 The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: Creation Shastri Akella Aquaman and American White Supremacy Luis A. Grande Branger A Gendered Cinema of Violence and Horror 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 Wan and the Classical (New) Horror Film 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 About the Contributors Index
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