{"product_id":"9781399537100","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Postmodern Slasher Film by Steve Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/07\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from their predecessors because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche and deconstruction.   The Postmodern Slasher Film challenges those assumptions by demonstrating that those same traits have been present in the slasher subgenre since its 1980s boom-period. This book instead argues that postmodern slasher films are more pertinently distinguished by their tone, which is characterised by self-consciousness, duplicity, cynicism and fatalism. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368797974901,"sku":"9781399537100","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399537100.jpg?v=1764611025","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781399537100","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}