Publisher's Synopsis
This book looks at box office smashing slasher horror films and the potential relationship of trauma and self-hatred that these films hold to adolescents aged 14-20 who commit self-harm. The films that are studied are The Nightmare on Elm Street series, Hellraiser series, and Friday the 13th series since all three franchises dominated the theaters of the 1980s and present day. The book uses multiple literary lenses to discuss how slasher films convey trauma and self-hatred and how the slasher films share a relationship with girls aged 14-20 who self-harm. The literary lens used are narratology, gender studies, and trauma theory.
This book was produced as a part of the masters program thesis requirements at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in the year 2020.
