FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Hiltzik, Final Girl, Voyeurism
6 Dec 2017
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> relationship between monster & other characters within film who are to become victims . > passive (to be looked at) females objects for male objectification. > active (looking) males possessors of male gaze. > male is unidentifiable in promotional images, while women are clearly exposed. > male death: quick, detached, & less interesting. > female death: prolonged, visceral, eroticized, & gory. ~ complicating the male gaze: sexually ineffectual/ deviant male: penis trouble killer/ voyeur, the final girl (clover)/ surviving female (pinedo) > ill-defined & mutable gender identities in horror films: sleepaway camp (robert hiltzik, 1983)
