Horror Franchise Cinema

This book brings together a broad range of perspectives, from both established scholars and early career researchers, to foreground a profound gap in academic studies: the horror film franchise. Though the franchise itself was once considered a lesser topic for academic study, the importance of the franchise to current modes of cinema has since been addressed Derek Johnson (2013). However, despite this reassessment, the importance of franchise models of entertainment to the horror genre has been largely overlooked. This book aims to address this significant gap, by being the first scholarly text to focus exclusively on key texts from the history of the horror film franchise.