{"id":5843,"date":"2013-04-28T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:15:39","slug":"scream-3-is-the-movie-of-the-book-within-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/scream-3-is-the-movie-of-the-book-within-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream 3 is the movie-of-the-book-within-the-movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Scream<\/em> franchise disappears even further up its own backside as the action moves to a Hollywood studio making a movie dramatizing a book relating the events seen in the original movie. We&#8217;re invited to take the moral point of view that the book-within-the-movie and the movie-of-the-book-within-the-movie are exploiting tragedy, but it&#8217;s not clear if <em>Scream 3<\/em> is self-aware enough to apply those lessons to itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scream franchise disappears even further up its own backside as the action moves to a Hollywood studio making a movie dramatizing a book relating the events seen in the original movie. We&#8217;re invited to take the moral point of view that the book-within-the-movie and the movie-of-the-book-within-the-movie are exploiting tragedy, but it&#8217;s not clear if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[1623,90,1998,1341],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-stars","category-movies","tag-1623","tag-horror","tag-scream","tag-wes-craven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scream-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1wf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5846,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/scream-4-makes-a-few-half-hearted-stabs-at-relevance\/","url_meta":{"origin":5843,"position":0},"title":"Scream 4 makes a few half-hearted stabs&#8230; at relevance","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By the time Scream 4 appeared, over a decade after the original trilogy began, the horror genre had moved on from the ironic, winking mode the series popularized. 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