horror Flashcards
horror complicates
-identifying genres
-dististinct genres
defining horror
-not easy to define,the only thing that it makes a horror film a horror film is being able to create fear
-horror is not as dependent on iconorgraphy(common treats,sets,shots)
ex:horse of a western
-horror is more dependent of affect(feelings)
-fear can change conform we change across time
sigmund freud/robin wood(paper)
-marx and freud:social and sexual revolution
-society and sexuality are linked
repression:socializes and push down needs
-basic repression:
universal,necesary and unascapable,make us human , is necessary so we put a side or needs to be part of society
-surplus repression:extra repression more then is necessary for us to live in a society. result of our ideological belifs/values.
if it works makes us :monogumus,heterosexuals,burgeosis,partriarchal,capitalists qualities valued in our cultures, it is not necessary for u to survive
surplus repreession vs opression
surplus repression :is quite and we internalize
opression:outside of the self is someone telling u to do
surplus repressed
-sexual energy
-bixesuality
-femine sexuality/creativity
-children sexuality
1-sexual energy
-sexual energy(creativity)we turn into something acceptable (sublimation)
ex:being in love and wanting to bang someone into a poem)
but he also argue that us using creativity is also something that it is repressed due to the society that we live today thinking art is less important then a job
2-bisexuality
-bisexuality: wanting both genders as sexual partners repressed because the myth that bi cannot stay faithful to one person and will look for the next person thretening monogomy
also the idea that both genders have qualities of eachothers, idea that man can act feminie and women act masculinity thretning acceptence of gender norms
3-female sexuality
female sexuality/criativity
-woman are seen as more passive and have to repress leadership,agression and if seen with those characteristics they are then as devious same for man
4-children sexuality
-children sexuality
we as adults put our repressions into children
otherness
what is different from dominant social identities
dealing with the other
-rejecting/annihilation
-assimilation
the other
what is most repressed in ourselves/projection
the ones that tend to be the other in horror movies are the ones that repressents what we repress in ourselves/society
- the women(ex;carrier)
is worst to be femenine then maculine
-promentarian/working class
-non-weatern cultures/ethic groups(ex:vampire)
-alternative political systems
-children
women
-is worst to be femenine then maculine
-fear that women can control men or better that man cannot control women
-fear the unstability of women’s emotion-histeria
working class
money/wealth is seen as good while working class as dirty and bad
