Scream Franchise...

• Scream was directed by Wes Craven, who also directed Nightmare on Elm Street
• Revitalized the Slasher Film Genre in the mid 1990's
• Scream was one of the highest grossing films of 1996
• A signiture device that started in Scream and continued in their sequesl, were "the rules" of teh slasher sub genre of horror movies, these "rules" were decribed by the character Randy:

1. You may not survive the mocie if you have sex
2. You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs
3. You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back", "Hello", or "who's there"

• There are two main films that Scream refers to throughout the film, these two films are "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Halloween"

Scream (1996):

One year after the death of Sidney Prescott's (Campbell) mother, two students turn up gutted. When a serial killer appears, Sidney begins to suspect whether her mother's death and the two new deaths are related. No one is safe, as the killer begins to pick everyone off one by one. Every one's a suspect in this case, especially Sidney's boyfriend.

Scream 2 (1997):

It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, "The Woodsboro Murders," which has been turned into the film, "Stab," starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film's play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his "surrogate sister." But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!

Scream 3 (1999):

After the terrifying events that occurred around Windsor College, Sidney is now living alone in a secluded Northern California mountainside. Still haunted by her past, frightening images of her dead mother reappear time after time in her head as she tries to get on with her life. She now gives advice, under a fictional name for safety, to women in crisis via telephone. Soon enough though, her comfort turns to fear as she receives a threatening phone call from an anonymous source who informs her on the recent murders committed around the Hollywood set of "Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro, the third and final chapter to the 'Stab' series. Sidney decides to visit the set when she finds out that with every victim, the new killer leaves behind a different photo of Sidney's deceased mother, Maureen Prescott. Eventually the cast of "Stab 3" start dying one by one and more photos of Maureen appear.

Post-Modern:

The term basically means "after the modern", an aesthetic paradigm that explores the media-saturated, transnational culture of consumption where globalised media provide information and entertainment

Pastiche:

A media text made up form other media text pieces or of imitations of other styles

Irony:

Irony is when humor is based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning

Intertextuality:

The practice of purposely including a reference of one text in the narrative of another, it can generate levels of meaning for the viewer.