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Scream
- Title
- Scream / Steven West.
- Author
- West, Steven
- Publication
- Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 129 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Devil's advocates
- Uniform Title
- Devil's advocates.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Flashback face: "Do you like scary movies?": Scream and revitilisation -- First blood: the opening of Scream -- Craven images: the road to Scream -- Horror, Happy Meals and hybridisation: Scream and the 1990s -- Characters, conventions and "the rules": creating Scream's thieving whoring ensemble -- Watch a few movies, make a few notes: Scream's layer cake of references -- Reception and marketing: the selling of Scream -- Scream and Scream again: the legacy of Scream -- Bibliography.
- Call Number
- MFLP (Scream) 19-2666
- ISBN
- 9781911325277
- 1911325272
- OCLC
- 962253745
- Author
- West, Steven, author.
- Title
- Scream / Steven West.
- Publisher
- Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Devil's advocatesDevil's advocates.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- MFLP (Scream) 19-2666