The Deeper Meaning of the Scream Movies

I made this video essay after watching EVERY Scream film and reflecting on what the franchise is really about. This analysis/breakdown/review gets into the Scream universe interplay between culture and pop culture (the Gale Weathers novels and the Stab movies), the comfortable but disenchanted setting of Woodsboro, why Ghostface is scared rather than scary and more.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Trailer
00:59 Intro
04:46 Ghostface
06:23 Culture and Pop Culture
09:06 The Rules
12:46 The Star
17:02 Family Secrets
22:32 Competitive Victimhood
32:40 Ghostface as Hero
36:37 Outro

REFERENCES
- Robb, B. J. (2022). Screams & Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven. Birlinn Ltd.
- Scream: The Inside Story (TV Movie 2011)
- Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000), Scream 4 (2011), Scream (2022), Scream VI (2023)
- https://www.fangoria.com/original/lor...
- Fantastic Faces photo by John Louis Evilsizor
- https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/fr...
- Rian Johnson image by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan - Star Wars: The Last Jedi Japan Premiere Red Carpet: Rian Johnson, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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