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Blumhouse Productions Todd K. Platts

Blumhouse Productions By Todd K. Platts

Blumhouse Productions by Todd K. Platts


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Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters offer readers a deeper appreciation of how Blumhouse makes its films with an unusual, but successful, business model.

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Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror by Todd K. Platts

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and toxic masculinity. Blumhouse's business strategies and funding model are considered - including the company's high-profile franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Happy Death Day, and Halloween - alongside such key standalone films as Get Out and Black Christmas, and nonhorror films like BlackKklansman. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough primer for one of the most significant drivers behind the contemporary resurgence of horror cinema.

About Todd K. Platts

Todd K. Platts is Professor of Sociology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has published extensively on horror cinema. Victoria McCollum is Course Director of BSc Cinematic Arts at Ulster University, Magee. Victoria has published a number of cutting-edge books on film, media and TV. Mathias Clasen is Associate Professor of Literature and Media in the English Department at Aarhus University, Denmark, and director of the Recreational Fear Lab.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Blumhouse at the Box Office, 2009-2018 'Those Things You See Through': Get Out, Signifyin', and Hollywood's Commodification of African American Independent Cinema Haunted Bodies, Haunted Houses Gothixity: Evoking the Gothic through New Forms of Toxic Masculinity Space Invaders: Aliens and Recessionary Anxieties in Dark Skies The (Blum)House Found Footage Horror Built Insidious Patterns: An Integrative Analysis of Blumhouse's Most Important Franchise The Purge: Violence and Religion as Toxic Cocktail Happy Death Day: Beyond the Neoslasher Cycle Haunted Networks: Transparency and Exposure in Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web Blumhouse's Halloween (2018) the Shifting Ethos of Slasher Remakes 'Disobedient Women' and Malicious Men: A Comparative Assessment of the Politics of Black Christmas (1974) and (2019) What Lies Behind the White Hood: Looking at Horror Through a Realistic Lens Through Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman Bibliography Index

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CIN178683863XG
9781786838636
178683863X
Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror by Todd K. Platts
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Wales Press
2022-05-15
288
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