4 Dir. by Sean S. Cunningham, Paramount Pictures et al., (1980) 5 Dir. by Wes Craven, New Line Cinema (1994) 6 Dir. by Ronny Yu, New Line Cinema et al. (2003) 7 Dir. by Samuel Bayer, New Line Cinema et al. (2010) 8 Isabel Cristina Pinedo, ‘Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film,’ in: The Horror Film, ed. by Stephen Prince (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2004), 85–117 (pp. 90-91). 9 Especially striking is the circumstance that from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 – The Dream M<strong>as</strong>ter (dir. by Renny Harlin, New Line Cinema, 1988) on, Freddy Krueger turns into a blabbing, tough-talking trickster. 10 In Gestörter Film. Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (Darmstadt: Büchner, 2012). 11 The Elm Street references the great US trauma of the 60s: President John F. Kennedy being <strong>as</strong>s<strong>as</strong>sinated on Elm Street in Dall<strong>as</strong>, Tex<strong>as</strong> on November 22nd 1963. 12 The Final Girl, a concept elaborated by Carol J. Clover, is the l<strong>as</strong>t survivor in the sl<strong>as</strong>her genre, usually a sexually inactive, somewhat m<strong>as</strong>culinized girl who fights the killer with resourceful wit, not being afraid to use violence against him. See for instance Carol J. Clover,’ Her Body Himself. Gender in the Sl<strong>as</strong>her Film,’ Representations 20 (1987), 187–228. 13 Original title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, dir. by F. W. Murnau, Jofa-Atelier Berlin- Johannisthal and Prana-Film GmbH (1922) 14 Robin Wood, ‘An Introduction to the American Horror Film,’ in: Planks of Re<strong>as</strong>on. Essays on the Horror Film, ed. by. Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett (Lanham et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2004), 107- 141 (p. 117). 15 Dir. by Tobe Hooper, MGM et al. (1982) 16 Dir. by Chuck Russell, New Line Cinema (1987) 17 Noël Carroll, ‘Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fant<strong>as</strong>tic Beings,’ in: Film Quarterly 34/3 (1981), 16-25, p. 24. 18 Joseph Maddrey, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue. The Evolution of the American Horror Film. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2005), p. 85. 19 Dir. by Renny Harlin, New Line Cinema (1988) 20 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (London: Penguin, 1994), p. 12. 21 Original title: Něco z Alenky, dir. by Jan Švankmajer, Channel Four Films et al. (1988) 24
22 Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Gl<strong>as</strong>s and What Alice Found There,’ in The Annotated Alice, ed. by Martin Gardner (London: Penguin, 2001), 133-288 (pp. 197-198). 25
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