FILM 3420D Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Splatter Film, List Of Body Horror Media, Digital Image
4 Apr 2016
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Urban alienation combined with anxiety over digital media. Questioning the truthfulness of the digital image. The surplus repression of bourgeois capitalism (american ideology) More than the basic repression of animal instincts necessary for growing up. Turning us into neurotic but well behaving subjects through ideological norms: What are the norms of american ideology repress: sexual energy and its sublimation into non-sexual creativity, bisexuality, female sexuality/creativity, child sexuality. Those who embody or are perceived to embody these repressed elements are marked as non-normative, monstrous others by the dominant culture. Non-normative other : other people (competition in the market, women (feminine autonomy, the proletariat (non-capitalist productivity, other cultures, ethnic groups within the culture, alternative ideologies and political systems (communism, socialism, deviations from ideological sexual norms, children. Desire to eliminate the threat and return to normalcy. Desire to subvert and escape the normative ideology. Reaffirming the value apocalyptic sense of of the bourgeois family civilization condemning self.
