“Nightmare is over”: Trauma and Agency in the Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street

The 2010 remake of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street focuses on the earthly abuses committed by the now confirmed pedophile Freddy Krueger. The fact that the victims of Krueger’s sexual assaults start get- ting murdered in their sleep is relevant to the trauma studies, as nightmares are one...

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Main Author: Rosana Ruas Machado Gomes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2021-07-01
Series:Galáxia
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/51921