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A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors) Hardcover – August 8, 2023

by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Editor, Contributor), John Darowski University of Louisville (Editor, Contributor), Taksala Abeyguawardena (Contributor),
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In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ecology will find this book particularly interesting.

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    322 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Lexington Books
  4. Publication date
    August 8, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    6.22 x 0.94 x 9.34 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1666919063
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1666919066
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“Pagnoni Berns and Darowski have curated a volume on the cinema of Wes Craven that is greater than the sum of its parts, illuminating the dark corners of his canon while also offering fresh insights into old favorites. From his television movies to ecocritical readings of his work to multiple analyses of “rubber reality,” there is something here for every scholar, fan, and scholar-fan of Craven’s work. A thorough survey of an underappreciated auteur.“

-- Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount University

“Examining classic titles alongside lesser-known works, the diverse essays included in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven offer fresh perspective and new insight into the career of this most revered horror filmmaker. Authoritative, passionate, critical, and engaging, this is a must read for the horror fan and scholar.”

-- Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton London

“An indispensable volume on an indispensable horror auteur. A Critical Companion to Wes Craven provides an exhaustive overview of one of the most respected (but understudied) masters of horror. The companion will serve as a necessary point of reference for future scholars of Craven’s oeuvre. Every nook and cranny of Craven’s career is explored from the use of “rubber reality,” to his tendency to explore the monstrousness of family and nature, to his neglected work on made-for-television films, to his lesser appreciated works like My Soul to Take (2010) and Swamp Thing (1982), and much more.”

-- Todd K. Platts, Piedmont Virginia Community College

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Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires.

John Darowski is a PhD candidate in comparative humanities at the University of Louisville.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexington Books (August 8, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1666919063
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1666919066
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 0.94 x 9.34 inches

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    Dr. Dodson is the Residential College Coordinator and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches courses on rhetoric, literature, and film, with a focus on exploitation and marginalized literature and cinema. He has published essays on Tod Browning, Wes Craven, Jess Franco, Hugo Haas and Shirley Jackson, and various film genres in edited collections and journals including Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and MONSTRUM. He is the co-editor, with David A. Cook, of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema, a book series on exploitation films and filmmakers and the various ways in which they have subsidized mainstream cinema and culture and have represented marginalized identities. He is the co-editor with Kristopher Woofter of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press, 2021). Dodson and Woofter recorded an audio commentary for the Kino-Lorber Blu-ray release of Tobe Hooper's "I'm Dangerous Tonight," released in 2022. Dodson has contributed audio commentaries and featurettes to dozens of Blu-ray releases, most recently "The Spider Labyrinth" (Severin, 2023), "The Swiss Conspiracy" (Film Masters, 2024), "The Zombie Army" (Saturn's Core, 2024), "Door II: Tokyo Diary" (Terror-Vision, 2024), and "River" (GraveFace Films, 2024).

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