[Commlist] CFP: A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40

/One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…/

/A Nightmare on Elm Street/ @ 40

Hosted by The University of Nottingham in association with Fear2000
8-9 November 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Dr Bruna Foletto Lucas (Kingston University)
Dr Steve Jones (Northumbria University)

Special Guests

Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (screenwriters of /Freddy vs Jason/)

Dustin McNeill (author of /Slash of the Titans: The Road to Freddy vs 
Jason <https://www.harkerpress.com/freddyvsjason>/)

80s Video Shop <http://www.80svideoshop.co.uk/>, Alfreton, will be there 
with /A Nightmare on Elm Street/-themed exhibit

Screenings at The Arc Cinema, Beeston <https://beeston.arccinema.co.uk/>
/A Nightmare on Elm Street /(1984) in 4K - Friday 8 November
/Freddy vs Jason /(2003) - Saturday 9 November

_All included for registered attendees!_

The tale of a child murderer returned from beyond the grave to torment 
the children of his killers, /A Nightmare on Elm Street /mutated into a 
phenomenon thanks to its gruesome villain: the titan of popular culture 
that is Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).
Wes Craven’s original film spawned six sequels, a television series, 
novels, comic books, a franchise crossover with /Friday the 13th/ and a 
twenty-first century remake. Due to the film’s runaway success, New Line 
Cinema gained the nickname “The House that Freddy Built”, Craven was 
transported from the grimier margins of the horror genre to the 
crowd-pleasing mainstream, and its stars – Englund and Heather 
Langenkamp, the “Final Girl” – became genre icons. The series found 
renewed success with its seventh instalment (itself turning 30 this 
year), /Wes Craven’s New Nightmare /(1994), which anticipated the 
postmodern rebirth of the horror genre with Craven’s next groundbreaking 
project,/ Scream/ (1996).
Hosted by the University of Nottingham to coincide with the 40th 
anniversary of the 1984 original, this conference offers us the chance 
to explore, debate and celebrate the legacy of the /Nightmare/ series in 
popular culture. Ultimately, the conference will aim to show why Freddy 
still matters even after fourteen years of absence from our screens.
*Proposals for papers are welcomed on any aspect of the franchise, 
including:*

  *
    /A Nightmare on Elm Street /and New Line Cinema: The House that
    Freddy Built
  *
    The Final Girl: gender and representation across the franchise
  *
    Freddy as ‘Return of the Repressed’: historical trauma
  *
    Freddy and Reaganism: Nightmares in suburbia
  *
    /A Nightmare on Elm Street /and queer politics
  *
    ‘[In] a Black theater… the relationship to Freddy is closer than it
    is to the victims’- Jordan Peele: /A Nightmare on Elm Street /and
    BIPOC audiences
  *
    The ethics of Freddy Krueger: from child murderer to pop culture icon
  *
    /A Nightmare on Elm Street /as franchise: sequels, crossovers, TV
    series, remake, video games, novels and comic books
  *
    ‘Every kid knows who Freddy is. He’s like Santa Claus’: Audiences,
    fandom, and legacy


Please submit abstracts of 250 words (max.) and a 100-word bio for 
20-minute papers to (elmstreet40 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(elmstreet40 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)> by Friday 6 September 2024.


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