| Description |
1 online resource (133 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Devil's advocates
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Devil's advocates.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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." |
| Biography |
Jon Towlson is the author of The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (2016); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Auteur, 2016); and the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award-nominated Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (2014). |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Candyman (Motion picture : 1992)
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Rose, Bernard, 1961- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barker, Clive, 1952- -- Film adaptations.
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Barker, Clive, 1952- |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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United States. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Towlson, Jon, 1967- Candyman. Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing, 2018 191132554X (OCoLC)1004760428 |
| ISBN |
9781911325550 electronic book |
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1911325558 electronic book |
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9781800347151 electronic book |
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1800347154 electronic book |
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9781911325543 paperback |
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