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The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula | Alexandra West
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Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the 90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the countrys most prosperous eras. No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD soundtrack covers. Girl power feminism and a growing distaste for consumerism defined an audience that both embraced and rejected the commercial appeal of these films. This in-depth study examines the youth subculture and politics of the era, focusing on such films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Idle Hands (1999) and Cherry Falls (2000).
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Robotswithpersonality
Robotswithpersonality
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula | Alexandra West
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I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Mostly that I got suckered by a subtitle. At 171 pages full of spelling mistakes and missing words, this book feels more like an outline to a furture book, than a book in itself. Considering the page count, it's hard not to look on the author's frequent quoting from other sources as filler, or scrabbling to support via other's work, the few solid arguments that are made. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The last two chapters talk about films from the early to mid-2000s, though it could be argued some were in production at the end of the 90s. Within the films actually produced in the 90s, there is internal analysis of a handful of films, in too brief a time in each case when you add in the time it takes to give a full synopsis of film events, and occasionally linkages between filmd presented as larger themes: 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? teens seeking of identity, individuality vs conformity, third wave feminism, sexuality, the inherent issues with films of this and previous eras, such as misogyny and racism. Insofar as the text regularly refers to film companies attempting to seek out what appealed to teen film audiences in the 90s, I guess both the book and the industry were in search of a new Hollywood formula, but I'm not sure either instance found it. 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? When the film's focus is on a final girl, the text makes mention of it, but it's definitely not a strong enough connection throughout all the films discussed to warrant an inclusion in the subtitle of the book.
Here's hoping when I pick up Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, which this book regularly refers to and which I've heard much about and been eager to read for a while, it doesn't end with the same 'at least 1mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 it's off my TBR pile' feeling.

⚠️SA, misogyny, classism, racism
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Carla
Carla
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula | Alexandra West
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Disability requires creativity. Deep into Alex‘s book, my eyesight started to blur & I started to experience a rare symptom for me of EDS. You know when you get an eyelid twitch? Imagine that, but in your neck. So I diverted to a movie, one that fit the theme of the book but fell just outside of its scope: Swimfan (2002).
So consider this another plug for this fine horror & history book & your educational moment in Ehlers-Danlos Awareness Month.

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