FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Asia Argento, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, The Stendhal Syndrome
24 Jan 2017
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The slasher film & the final girl (ta-led class: slasher films are a sub-genre, usually they have a focus on women. These movies were prevalent in american films in the. Through bravery or luck the girl is the only one to survive. The place of women in patriarchy - women are manipulated to fit the fantasies of men. Two types of pleasure in looking: voyeurism, identification. Usually active agents and push the story forward. The key takeaways from mulvey (cid:862)ci(cid:374)e(cid:373)a stru(cid:272)tures the (cid:449)ay (cid:449)e look at the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:271)odies it prese(cid:374)ts. (cid:863) These structures are not neutral, they are not inevitable, they are more constructions of the society where the film is being made. The final girl is a term coined by carol clover. Usually they avoid the vices of the other group (sex, drinks, drugs). Final girls are the investigative consciousness of the film.
