“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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Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2021-07-01
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Series: | Galáxia |
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Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/galaxia/article/view/51921 |