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The Scream Trilogy, "Hyperpostmodernism," and the Late-Nineties Teen Slasher Film
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IN "GENERICITY IN THE NINETIES: ECLECTIC IRONY AND THE NEW SINCERITY," published in 1993, Jim Collins examined a number of popular genre films released in the early 1990s,1 remarking that "what we have seen of postmodernism thus far is really a first phase, perhaps Early Postmodernism, the first tentative attempts at envisioning the impact of new technologies of mass communication and information processing on the structure of narrative" (262). In December 1996, Dimension Films released Scream, a slasher film that went on to resurrect and redfine that dormant genre for a new generation of teenagers. The Scream trilogy (Scream 2 [1997], Scream 3 [2000]) also marks a later phase of …
