Scream
Wes Craven's "Scream" (1996) emerged at the point where the early eighties American slasher cycle had effectively morphed into the post-"Fatal Attraction" (1987) trend for Hollywood thrillers constructed around slasher movie tropes. It was a spiritual successor to Craven...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leighton Buzzard
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2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Devil's advocates
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| Zusammenfassung: | Wes Craven's "Scream" (1996) emerged at the point where the early eighties American slasher cycle had effectively morphed into the post-"Fatal Attraction" (1987) trend for Hollywood thrillers constructed around slasher movie tropes. It was a spiritual successor to Craven's unpopular but critically praised Wes Craven's "New Nightmare" (1994), a revisionist sequel reviving his most lucrative creation in a postmodern story about the filmmaker's own loss of creative control over the "Elm Street" franchise. "Scream" appropriates the multiple layers and extensive genre referencing of "New Nightmare," albeit in a much more commercial form carefully crafted to avoid alienating teen audiences who were not around for the original slasher cycle. its deconstruction of a seemingly moribund sub-genre was hailed as original, despite echoing the approaches of several fin-de-siècle eighties horror films. This book offers a detailed exploration of the "Scream" phenomenon, including its position in Craven's filmography, the script's prominent use of earlier genre films (particularly "Halloween" [1978]), the studio marketing campaign and the film's place in late twentieth-century horror cinema |
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| Beschreibung: | 129 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits (schwarz-weiß) 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781911325277 |