'Scream' horror franchise
- The movie has been directed by Wes Craven
- The movie is based around a psychopathic killer
- Throughout horror films particularly in scream and its sequels a certain set of rules have been made clear and made reference to repeatingly. The rules were mentioned by Randy in the film and they are as follows: You will not survive.....If You have sex, If you drink or do drugs, If you say "i'll be right back, hello? or who's there"
There are a number of other movies that are made reference to throughout Scream. They are as follows:
- A nightmare on Elm street
Halloween
Candy man (by Stu)
Prom night (by Randy)
Night of the living dead
Friday the 13th
Exorcist (by Billy)
Psycho (by Billy)
Texas chainsaw masacre (by Randy)
Silence of the lambs (by Billy)
Evil dead (by Randy)
Postmodernism: a term used to describe the period of art which followed the modern period. It means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. The idea of postmodernism links to Scream as in the developement of technology is portrayed in the film and the more acceptable society.
Pastiche: a work of art that mixes styles or copies the style of another.
Irony: a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience. This is reflected in Scream as there are numerous occasions where the character states something, but means something totally different by it.
Intertextuality: the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. As Scream has a wide and diverse audience, each member will view and interperet the movie in a different way to another member.
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