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Candyman / Jon Towlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Towlson, Jon, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Devil's advocates.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Devil's advocates
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History.
- Horror films.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Candyman (Motion picture : 1992).
- Rose, Bernard, 1961---Criticism and interpretation.
- Rose, Bernard.
- Barker, Clive, 1952---Film adaptations.
- Barker, Clive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- 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.' This book considers how Candyman might be read both as a 'return of the repressed' during the George H.W. Bush era, and as an example of 1990s neoconservative horror.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 18, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781800850415
- 1800850417
- 9781800342347
- 1800342349
- 9781911325550
- 1911325558
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