Biology and Trauma: Monsters and Memory in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006).

• In Event: Contemporary U.S. American Film Analysis: 4 Approaches

Abstract

Through an extended close reading of the film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, this paper seeks to delineate the epistemological limits of two approaches of analyzing meaning in film: the evolutionary approach as espoused by David Sloane Wilson and the literary approaches rooted in Lacanian theory as posited by Julia Kristeva and Susannah Radstone.

Author

• Michael Delnero, Bowling Green State Univ