Laura Mulvey- representation of women in film 'the male gaze'
Women's body being shown on screen, makes make viewer experience erotic pleasure
Mulveys theory applies to the mean girls in the story
They are sexualised because they are wearing tight and revealing clothing to show their popularity.
Clover-Final girl
Clovers theory on representation says that there is a last female character that stays alive and confronts the antagonist. She is a virgin, a 'good girl', doesn't engage in partying and drugs. She has shared history with the killer. She also has a uni sex name, she possesses masculine characteristics, which is why she is able to survive. Horror is a patriarchal genre. Our final girl is Mary-Louise, virginal, innocent and not partaking in the bullying.
Sarah Dobbs-words and monsters/Feminism in horror
On one hand, women are treated that decorative objects and disposable victims, 'scream queens'(celebrated for their looks as oppose to their intelligence) on the other hand, they are lead characters and protagonists. Female antagonists are rare, this is an unique selling point for our production as in our production, the antagonist is female-Lorna comes back as a haunting ghost.
She says that horror films are still made to appeal primarily to males, and there are less female's behind the camera, e.g directors etc. She says the idea of the final girl is empowering- The final girl survives, gets revenge and gets messy = strength.
Charles Derry- Demonic possessions
He believes that there are sexual connotations to possession as the evil force is often represented as a male who enters, or projects from within a female. Seen as taking control of the weaker sex. Victims of possession are most likely to be female.
Demonic possessions also have an element of religious representation-temptation and sin; if you are influenced y the devil, God is the only source that can save you- shown through priests coming in resolving the situation etc.
Also an element of mental illness-before modern medicines, people with things such as epilepsy were thought to be supernatural, horror films bring these things to the surface through characters such as witches and demons.
Berger- Ways of seeing
Men act and women appear. Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. Women are aware that they're being seen as a male spectator.
In our production, this is evident through the clothes that the man girls wear, they are aware that they are to be spectated by males.
KEY WORDS:
Hegemony-when one system is dominated by another, the dominating group achieves its domination by winning popular consent through everyday cultural life.
Ideology- set of ideas that create a selective or partial representation of reality whilst showing us familiar ideas
Clover-Final girl
Clovers theory on representation says that there is a last female character that stays alive and confronts the antagonist. She is a virgin, a 'good girl', doesn't engage in partying and drugs. She has shared history with the killer. She also has a uni sex name, she possesses masculine characteristics, which is why she is able to survive. Horror is a patriarchal genre. Our final girl is Mary-Louise, virginal, innocent and not partaking in the bullying.
Sarah Dobbs-words and monsters/Feminism in horror
On one hand, women are treated that decorative objects and disposable victims, 'scream queens'(celebrated for their looks as oppose to their intelligence) on the other hand, they are lead characters and protagonists. Female antagonists are rare, this is an unique selling point for our production as in our production, the antagonist is female-Lorna comes back as a haunting ghost.
She says that horror films are still made to appeal primarily to males, and there are less female's behind the camera, e.g directors etc. She says the idea of the final girl is empowering- The final girl survives, gets revenge and gets messy = strength.
Charles Derry- Demonic possessions
He believes that there are sexual connotations to possession as the evil force is often represented as a male who enters, or projects from within a female. Seen as taking control of the weaker sex. Victims of possession are most likely to be female.
Demonic possessions also have an element of religious representation-temptation and sin; if you are influenced y the devil, God is the only source that can save you- shown through priests coming in resolving the situation etc.
Also an element of mental illness-before modern medicines, people with things such as epilepsy were thought to be supernatural, horror films bring these things to the surface through characters such as witches and demons.
Berger- Ways of seeing
Men act and women appear. Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. Women are aware that they're being seen as a male spectator.
In our production, this is evident through the clothes that the man girls wear, they are aware that they are to be spectated by males.
KEY WORDS:
Hegemony-when one system is dominated by another, the dominating group achieves its domination by winning popular consent through everyday cultural life.
Ideology- set of ideas that create a selective or partial representation of reality whilst showing us familiar ideas
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