Candyman / Jon Towlson.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Towlson, Jon, 1967- author.

Contributor:

• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

• Devil's advocates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Barker, Clive, 1952-.
• United States.
• Candyman (Motion picture).
• Horror films--History and criticism.
• Horror films.
• Rose, Bernard, 1961---Criticism and interpretation.
• Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
• Motion picture producers and directors.
• Barker, Clive, 1952---Film adaptations.

Genre:

• Film adaptations.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

133 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was "scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore." Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s horror cinema in that it tackles its sociopolitical themes head on. As critic Kirsten Moana Thompson has remarked, Candyman is "the return of the repressed as national allegory": the film's hook-handed killer of urban legend embodies a history of racism, miscegenation, lynching, and slavery, "the taboo secrets of America's past and present."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-132).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 191132554X
• 9781911325543

OCLC:

1004760428

Publisher Number:

99976724918

Online:

The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page