FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat, Bisexuality, Robin Woods

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: FILM 1000
• Professor: Jose Sanchez

Document Summary

Lecture 13: horror (i): the return of the repressed: > defusing of impulses that aren"t acceptable in other areas of society. > low & disreputable genre makes possible to present subversive narratives. > robin wood"s an introduction to american horror film : one of most influential articles on academic study. > society represses certain forces which would threaten to destabilize it. > surplus repression ( ) is specific to particular culture & is process whereby people are conditioned from earliest infancy into monogamous heterosexual bourgeois patriarchal capitalists . > comes back (monster) to threaten normality (ex. sexuality: female, homosexuality, bisexuality) (ex. proletariat, other cultures, ethnic groups, alternative ideologies, & children) > challenges normal & natural heterosexual monogamous relations.