H-Announce Critical Essays on James Wan Announcement published by Matthew Edwards on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Type: Call for Papers Date: May 31, 2019 Location: United Kingdom Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies Critical Essays on James Wan Deadline for abstract submissions: May, 2019 Full name / name of organization: Matthew Edwards/ Independent Scholar Contact email:
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[email protected] Critical Essays on James Wan Edited by Matthew Edwards and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Critical essays are sought on the cinema of Malaysian/Australian director, screenwriter and producer James Wan. As 2018 marks Wan’s first incursion into superhero cinema with Aquaman, a film that reportedly is DC Films’ biggest worldwide grosser, critical attention on the director keeps intensifying. With huge critical and box office successes such as Saw (2004), a film that kickstarted a whole franchise, The Conjuring I and II (2013 and 2016), films that started a whole filmic universe, together with Death Sentence (2007), Insidious I and II (2010 and 2013), Furious 7 (2015) and Dead Silence (2007), it can be argued that we are facing a new Hollywood auteur with an identity of his own. Still, there is a striking lack of critical studies on the works of James Wan, even Citation: Matthew Edwards. Critical Essays on James Wan. H-Announce. 02-12-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3703216/critical-essays-james-wan Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.