{"product_id":"candyman-paperback","title":"Candyman - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Towlson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 134\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53458413551923,"sku":"9781911325543","price":34.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/fBKBcipJIv9781911325543.webp?v=1781028547","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/candyman-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}