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“You Can Really Make the Story Your Own”: Taking Back ICandyman/I
Ist Teil von
Humanities (Basel), 2023-09, Vol.12 (5)
Ort / Verlag
MDPI AG
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
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Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）
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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 by gothic studies, narratology, and critical race theory, the essay shows how DaCosta’s film establishes a transformative relationship with its predecessor. In the 2021 film, Candyman rewrites the story of the original, disrupts its stereotypical representation of Blackness, and appropriates the horror genre to give voice to the peculiar anxieties of contemporary African American life. In so doing, DaCosta’s film also challenges classic gothic tropes of horrific Blackness while at the same time pushing back against dominant narratives on race to reclaim space for a discussion on racial relations in America filtered through a Black lens.