One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a worldwide cult following, resulting in sequels, remakes, musicals, comic books, conventions, video games and a television series.
Examining the legacy of one of the all-time great horror films, this collection of new essays covers the franchise from a range of perspectives. Topics include The Evil Dead as punk rock cinema, the Deadites' (demon-possessed undead) place in the American zombie tradition, the powers and limitations of Deadites, evil as affect, and the films' satire of neoliberal individualism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Films
Deadites and the American Zombie Tradition (Brandon Kempner)
"The Number One Nasty": How Britain's Most Popular
Eighties Horror Was Banned (Sarah Cleary)
Final Girl, Final Boy: Ash's Imperiled Masculinity (Dale Bailey)
Perceptions of Paranormal Plausibility: Method and Manipulation in The Evil Dead (Leon Lewis )
Naturom Demonto: How The Evil Dead Claims Evil for Both Literature and Cinema (John Semley)
Tracking Gaze, Possessing Perspective: Evil as Affect (Haerin Shin)
The Evil Dead and Punk Rock Cinema (Alex Pitofsky)
Horrid Addictions and Curious Cravings (Emily D. Edwards)
Dismembering, Repeating and Working-Through: Queer Disability and Neoliberal Crises of Deracination in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead Trilogy
(Clayton J. Plake)
The First Horror Film Shot in Michigan (Ron Riekki)
Part II: The Franchise and Adaptations
"Don't call me Ash!": Success, the Bruce Campbell Way (Michael Fuchs and Michael Phillips)
Ash vs. the Cult of Personality (Alex Liddell)
"For God's sake, how do you stop it?!": The Powers
and Limitations of the Deadites (Michael P. Jaros and Robert I. Lublin)
"Shoot first, think never": Ash's Satire of Neoliberal
Individualism (Jeffrey A. Sartain)
Franchising Fright from Film to Game (Stefan Hall)
Repulsion and Convulsion in "The Splatter Zone" (Rob Roznowski)
Stage Horrality: Evil Dead: The Musical and the Theatricality
of Embarrassment (André Loiselle)
Deadites vs. Adaptation (Valerie L. Guyant)
Deadite Porn (Olga Tchepikova-Treon)
Macduff vs. Army of Darkness (Erin Harrington)
Part III: Testimonials
Fake Shemping (Bill Vincent)
Do the Necronomicon: Evil Dead's Journey into the Realm
of Musical Theater (L. Michael Elliott)
Being Linda (Betsy Baker)
About the Contributors
Index
