Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hypodermic Needle, Carol J. Clover, Picket Fences
15 Apr 2016
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We don"t know who we are : monsters and. Think about spectator identification, or where exactly where you the viewer are situated in the film. Presuming that any film almost always gives you a spoiled view. In the slasher genre it"s not an innocuous thing. We are both red riding hood and the wolf carol clover her. We"re scared together with the victim, but we can relate to some of the emotions of the monster. So in a sense, the monster is ourselves. Clover argues that hitchcock"s psycho is what created the slasher genre. Psycho became the formula for slasher films. Halloween follows the formula created by psycho (cid:1) (cid:1) Moving between i love to watch this and why do i enjoy watching this, what"s wrong with me. Very strange dynamics in the shifting of pov (cid:1) (cid:1) Michael kills his sister because she"s sexually active.
