FILM 1000 Lecture 6: Lecture6
6 Dec 2017
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> robin wood: horror films articulate impulses that aren"t socially acceptable (taboo) > negative outcome experienced by people targeted by arbitrary & cruel exercise of power in society/ social group. > primarily used to describe how certain group is being kept down by unjust use of force, authority, or societal norms. > most uncommonly felt & expressed by widespread, if unconscious, assumption that certain group of people are inferior. > psychological act of excluding desires & impulses (wishes, fantasies, or feelings) from one"s consciousness & attempting to hold/ subdue them in subconscious. > society has fear of physicality in general, & of sexuality in particular (sex & > normality (conformity with social norms) is always threatened by monster. > horror films can represent threat from 2 different positions: progressive: > monster contained at end but its presence has subverted bourgeois patriarchal norms of society. > dominant ideology is disintegrating & there"s no escape: reactionary:
