FILM 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Laura Mulvey, Castration, Carol J. Clover
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Film test 2: names + theories to know: Men are the ones who look, women are looked at. Women = passive decorations (active male, passive female) 1 voyeurism (looking without being seen, looking at things as objects, etc. ) Identification (misrecognizing yourself in the image on the screen like women forced to identify with the male character on screen and with the final girl men are identifying with women (the hero)* Barbara creed believes slasher films work to keep fear of castration alive. Women"s lack of penis reminds male spectators that he too could lose his penis (his omnipotence) Women = image of castration (according to freud. Less likely to be the object of sexual scrutiny. Like the killer she is able to hear, see, and speak authoritatively. Argues that horror is about the return of the repressed. Horror focuses on the things society forces us to repress and eventually must come out.