Cinema of James Wan

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)—Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina). He teaches courses on international horror film and has written about the Spanish horror TV series Historias para no Dormir and the Frankenstein bicentennial. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Matthew Edwards is a primary school teacher and freelance writer from Cirencester, England. He is the author or editor of numerous books on world cinema.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: James Wan, AuteurFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew EdwardsMigratory Anxieties and Diasporic CommunitiesInsidious Identity Politics: The Horror of HomeRebecca Wynne-WalshAquaman as ­Meta-Utopia: A Nozickian ReadingAdam LovaszOccupy and Replace: A Migratory Reading of Possession in The Conjuring 2 and Annabelle: CreationShastri AkellaAquaman and American White SupremacyLuis A. Grande BrangerA Gendered Cinema of Violence and HorrorMake Technology Suffer: The Hypermasculine in Death Sentence, Furious 7 and MacGyverFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsState of Exception in Saw and Death Sentence: Choose Your Type of AntiheroEmiliano AguilarThe Absent/Omnipresent Female Voice in Dead SilenceFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsWan and the Classical (New) Horror FilmJames Wan’s Dead Space: The Conjuring Films, Siegfried Kracauer and the Revenge of Physical RealityJoshua SchulzeChromatic Hauntings: The Uncanny Color Design of James Wan’s Horror FilmsCody ParishSuburban Gothic and Cosmic Horror in InsidiousElisabete Cristina Simões Lopes“Do you want to play hide and clap?” The Jump Scares of James Wan’s Supernatural Horror FilmsBrandon R. GrafiusAbout the ContributorsIndex