{"product_id":"candyman-9781911325543","title":"Candyman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eCandyman\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCandyman\u003c\/i\u003e is almost unique in 1990s horror cinema in that it tackles its sociopolitical themes head on. As critic Kirsten Moana Thompson has remarked, \u003ci\u003eCandyman\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Jon Towlson considers how \u003ci\u003eCandyman\u003c\/i\u003e might be read both as a \"return of the repressed\" during the George H. W. Bush era, and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the project’s development from its origins as a Clive Barker short story (\"The Forbidden\"); discusses the importance of its gritty real-life Cabrini-Green setting; and analyzes the film’s appropriation (and interrogation) of urban myth. The two official sequels (\u003ci\u003eCandyman: Farewell to the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e [1995] and \u003ci\u003eCandyman: Day of the Dead \u003c\/i\u003e[1999]) are also considered, plus a number of other urban myth-inspired horror movies such as \u003ci\u003eBloody Mary \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) and films in the Urban Legend franchise. The book features an in-depth interview with \u003ci\u003eCandyman’\u003c\/i\u003es writer-director Bernard Rose.","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191472447831,"sku":"9781911325543","price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/candyman-9781911325543","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}