This article explores the transnational qualities of the Chain Saw narrative via a comparison of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Christoph Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre (1990) with a focus on the latter.
The article challenges the idea of transnational narratives by identifying the cultural specificity of both films. However it does acknowledge Schlingensief’s The German Chain Saw Massacre as an ingenious appropriation of Hooper’s original for the unique historical framework of the German Reunification.

Keywords

  • Film, Christoph Schlingensief, Tobe Hooper, Chain Saw Massacre, Transnationalism, German Reunification, Horror, Splatter, National Myth
Original languageEnglish
Issue number4
JournalCine-Excess
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2020

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    Deutschlandsuche '99 - Erster Imaginärer Opernführer - Wagner-Rallye '04

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    Frühe Avantgarde

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    Nachlass

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