- Representation of women = Male Gaze
- Women's body on screen = male has erotic pleasure, women is object
- Gaze of heterosexual male
- Male directors
- Men are now 'sex objects' = Female Faze
Carol J. Clover - 'The Final Girl'
- Last female alive to confront the killer
- Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scream & A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Typically virgins, avoids sex and drugs, unisex name, sometimes shared history with killer
- Final girl is investigating consciousness of film
Sarah Dobbs - Feminism in Horror
- Female protagonists = Rom-coms
- Most women are actresses, not directors, producers or writers
- No need for the Final Girl in so many horror films
Charles Derry
1. Hauntings & Demonic Possessions
- Exorcist & Paranormal Activity - fear of unknown, superstition, evil exists
- Religion, gender and sexuality
- Spiritual presence - witches, ghosts, demons
- Characters fall prey to evil force
- Sexual connotations to 'possession'
- Evil force wants to corrupt its victims - 'The Shining'
- Good and evil, temptation and sin
2. Apocalypse
- Mankind threatened with extinction by inhuman creatures - sometimes virus or plague
- Sometimes from harmless creatures
- Set structure - sudden appearance of creatures
- No explicit reason for rising of creatures
3. The Human Monster
- Psychopathology and insanity - mind of a killer or insane person
- Monster in human deals with propensity for evil
- Sympathetic monster
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