HUMA 3697 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Road Rage, Status Quo, Selfishness
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The car and death-another alternative title for this week. Genre: same patterns between different books/forms of media. Christine of death, not only its victims but if death can affect spiritually cars. Course links: think back to earlier discussions about how gender and the car are intertwined: Rebel without a cause/american graffiti, on the road. Leigh and dennis discuss how christine is female in text and mad max lives in a hyper masculine world where no women exist and weak men occupy those roles instead. Always highlights those who are alienated from society. Monsters created when alienation meets the supernatural, or when the villain commits a deed that is beyond the boundaries of civilized society. Because they have ceased to be human, they have access to supernatural power. Alienated from society, they look to take or possess what they were denied in life. Horror always challenges the normal/horror is subversive. Involves usually a violent disgression of what is normal.
