[ecrea] CFP: "From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee": Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher

 CFP: “From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee”: Style and Form in the
 Hollywood Slasher

While there is no lack of serious critical and analytic work on the 
slasher subgenre of horror, the work that does exist generally either 
selects texts outside mainstream industrial production frameworks, or 
uses the films to discuss their implications within cultural, 
sociopolitical, socioeconomic, or generic contexts. Theorists appear to 
evade engaging with Hollywood slasher films on their own terms, leaving 
a large gap in the critical analysis of a significant body of popular 
cinema. While genre theory has attempted to address consistent points of 
repetition within the slasher, it is rare to find work that shows how 
individual films within this strand of cinema are designed and formed in 
order to provide a unique emotional resonance to warrant their 
appearance as a singular text.

‘“From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee”: Style and Form in the Hollywood 
Slasher’ aims to fill this gap by engaging with these texts, either 
produced or distributed by major and mini-major Hollywood studios, which 
are geared towards mass distribution and consumption but developed with 
each having a unique stylistic and structural identity. In turn, this 
will draw out the evolution of mainstream slasher aesthetics since the 
inception of the slasher as a popular genre. Abstracts for possible 
contributions to this collection are being accepted on any film or group 
of films produced or distributed by major (or mini-major) Hollywood 
studios within any of the following four periods:

1.The Golden Years of the Modern Slasher, 1980-1984

2.Decline of the First Cycle, Extending the Franchises, 1985-1993

3.Returning to Formula, Self-referentiality, and Exploring New 
Territory, 1994-2002

4.Remakes, Torture-horror, and Getting Dirty, 2003-Present

Abstracts should be no more than 350 words, accompanied by a 150 word 
bio, and sent to Wickham Clayton, (wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com)> <mailto:(wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com)> no 
later than 30 September 2012.
http://wickhamclayton.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/from-hells-heart/