English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sadomasochism
8 Jan 2018
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In addition, female students from the same dormitory as the murder victim were more interested than were female students living elsewhere in obtaining tickets for in cold blood. Death-wish: i enjoy watching disaster because i am attracted to death, to an end to life (freud: beyond the pleasure principle) Bronski also argued, in explicit terms, that slasher films represent a punitive morality characteristic of conservative social values. Oliver and sanders: the research generally reports that males tend to report greater enjoyment of horror films than do females, both overall and in response to specific films . Every study of the subject finds that boys far more than girls are drawn to violent entertainment. This is true not only in the united states and europe but elsewhere where it has been studied india, japan, the philippines . [horror films] are social occasions, particularly suitable for male bonding and establishing a masculine identity .
