SRS 1110 Lecture 5: February 9, 2017 - Guest Lecturer "Monstrous Women"
11 Feb 2017
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Film theory (mostly focuses on psychoanalytic theory) Unconscious / subconscious anxieties (dreams) come to light. Watching a movie is like being in a dream seeing our fears on screen bring them to our attention. Literary theory (mostly focuses on the gothic) The enlightenment period overthrew established ways of thinking. Novels feature an evil, corrupt man trying to, for example, force a young woman into marriage, cover up a crime, etc. Novels are centred on an attack of the emotions. Role of the supernatural ghost, apparitions, unknown. Surplus repression : not needed, fears, phobias, come out of differential power structures, become normalized homophobia, racism, etc. What is repressed must always strive to return e. g. the ring and haunts the film, gets you. Samara is murdered and thrown down a well, she comes back. 18th century gothic fiction : strong elements of romance, focused on women facing ordeals. Frankenstein : this story is based on women"s mythmaking on the subject of birth.
