“You Can Really Make the Story Your Own”: Taking Back Candyman
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This essay offers a comparative analysis of Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman and its 2021 sequel directed by Nia DaCosta. Through an intertextual approach informed gothic studies, narratology, critical race theory, the shows how DaCosta’s film establishes transformative relationship with predecessor. In film, rewrites story original, disrupts stereotypical representation Blackness, appropriates horror genre to give voice peculiar anxieties contemporary African American life. so doing, also challenges classic tropes horrific Blackness while at same time pushing back against dominant narratives on reclaim space for discussion racial relations in America filtered through Black lens.
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عنوان ژورنال: Humanities
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2076-0787']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/h12050103