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1	The Monstrous Feminine : i Takashi Miikes filmer / The Monstrous Feminine : in Takashi Miike's Films Ritzén, Gisela January 2013 (has links) I slutet av 90-talet sköljde en våg med asiatisk skräckfilm in över västvärlden. Filmerna handlade om kvinnor som dött en våldsam eller orättvis död och nu var tillbaka för att hämnas. Takashi Miike är en av de mest kända japanska regissörerna som har bidragit till den japanska skräckfilmsgenren som fick så stor spridning i väst. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka vilka kvinnoroller som finns representerade i fyra utav Miikes skräckfilmer och hur de framställs. Uppsatsen utgår från klassisk feministisk filmteori och undersöker om Barbara Creeds ”the monstrous feminine” och Carol Clovers ”the final girl” finns representerade i Miikes filmer. Bland uppsatsens slutsatser går det att finna att ”the final girl” delvis finns representerad i Miikes filmer, dock inte i samma utsträckning som i amerikansk skräckfilm, samt att man kan stöta på en viss problematik när man applicerar Creeds och Clovers teorier på filmer som inte följer ett västerländskt berättande.
2	Perverse pleasures: Spectatorship- The blair witch project Hayter, Tamiko Southcott 16 November 2006 (has links) Student Number : 9803476V - MA research report - School of Arts - Faculty of Humanities / By drawing on contemporary scholarship that addresses spectatorship in the cinema generally, and in the horror genre specifically, I analyze the perverse pleasure afforded by The Blair Witch Project. To do this I argue that pleasure in horror is afforded through the masochistic positioning of the viewer, especially in relation to psychoanalytic theories surrounding gender in spectator positioning. I also look at the way the film re-deploys conventions, both documentary conceptions of the ‘real’, as well as generic expectations of horror, to activate the perverse pleasure of horror. The Blair Witch Project spectatorship psychoanalytic film theory horror film conventions gender abjection monstrous feminine masochism
3	Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Altered Carbon Helton, Josh A. 01 June 2020 (has links) No description available. Political Science Sexuality Gender Commodity Form Science Fiction Monstrous Feminine Women as Characters Violence Against Women
4	Kvinnans roll i slasher-filmen : Representationen av kvinnliga karaktärer i slasher-filmen och dess utveckling Marginean, Matilde, Stenmark, Rebecca January 2022 (has links) Uppsatsen betraktar och analyserar kvinnliga karaktärer i fyra olika slasher-skräckfilmer utifrån metodvalen: Jens Eders karaktärsklocka, karaktärsanalys och bildsemiotisk analys. Filmerna, Alla helgons blodiga natt, Scream, Evil Dead och X, är specifikt utvalda utifrån fyra olika decennier där den grundläggande faktorn som följs är utveckling av kvinnliga karaktärer. Uppsatsens fokus ligger på Final Girl-karaktärerna som analyseras i samband med sina sociala kretsar och miljöer. De kvinnliga karaktärerna jämförs med varandra för att förhoppningsvis finna en insikt om vem den moderna Final Girl är och en utveckling i kvinnlig karaktärsbyggnad. Som ett resultat har analysen åstadkommit kunskap om den klassiska gentemot moderna Final Girl utifrån en utveckling baserat på relation till sex, sexualitet och självständighet. Den moderna Final Girl bryter mot den gamla tropen och anpassar sig till dagens samhälle. Dock, samtidigt, så får Final Girls som The Dumb Blonde, inte lika stor utveckling i den moderna slasher-filmen men fortsätter att förbli sanna till sina gammalmodiga troper, något som förhoppningsvis också kommer att förändras med tiden. Slasher-film troper The Final Girl male gaze monstrous feminine kvinnlig sexualitet Studies on Film Filmvetenskap
5	MILKY BODIES, OFF-WHITE MENACE: IDENTITY, MILK AND ABJECT FEMININITY IN RECENT US MEDIA Oberhammer, Tierney 12 November 2010 (has links) No description available. American Studies maternal abject abjection monstrous feminine femininity milk whiteness mimicry Strain Hills Have Eyes Mr. Brooks Inglourious Basterds Professional Always Sunny Philadelphia
6	The Lawrentian Woman: Monsters in the Margins of 20th-Century British Literature Brice, Dusty A 01 December 2015 (has links) Despite his own conservative values, D.H. Lawrence writes sexually liberated female characters. The most subversive female characters in Lawrence’s oeuvre are the Brangwens of The Rainbow. The Brangwens are prototypical models of a form of femininity that connects women to Nature while distancing them from society; his women are cast as monsters, but are strengthened from their link with Nature. They represent what I am calling the Lawrentian-Woman. The Lawrentian-Woman has proven influential for contemporary British authors. I examine the Lawrentian-Woman’s adoption by later writers and her evolution from modernist frame to postmodern appropriation. First, I look at the Brangwens. They establish the tropes of the Lawrentian-Woman and provide the base from which to compare the model’s subsequent mutations. Next, I examine modern British writers and their appropriation of the Lawrentian-Woman. The Lawrentian-Woman’s attributes remain intact, but are deconstructed in ways that explore women’s continued liminality in patriarchal society. D.H. Lawrence Monstrous-Feminine Abject Graham Swift Sebastian Faulks Angela Carter English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Literature in English, British Isles Modern Literature Women's Studies
7	Fashioning the gothic female body : the representation of women in three of Tim Burton's films Smith, Julie Lynne 10 1900 (has links) This study explores the construction of the Gothic female body in three films by the director Tim Burton, specifically Batman Returns (1992), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012). Through a deployment of Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, the intention is to indicate the degree to which Burton crafts his leading female characters as abject Others and embodiments of Barbara Creed’s ‘monstrous-feminine’. In this Gothic portrayal, the director consistently draws on the essentialised stereotypes of Woman as either ‘virgin’ or ‘whore’ as he shapes his Gothic heroines and femmes fatales. While a gendered duality is established, this is destabilised to an extent, as Burton permits his female characters varying degrees of agency as they acquire monstrous traits. This construction of Woman as monster, this study will show, is founded on a certain fear of femaleness, so reinstating the ideology of Woman as Other. / English Studies / M.A. (English Studies) Tim Burton Gothic Abjection Monstrous-feminine The Angel in the House Gothic heroine Virgin/Whore Female Other Embodiment Femme fatale 791.436 Burton, Tim, 1958- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Human body in motion pictures Horror films -- History and criticism
8	Aggressive Flesh: The Obese Female Other Broom, Hannah January 2005 (has links) My visual art practice explores the point at which a sense of bodily humour and revulsion may intersect in the world of the monstrous-feminine: the female grotesque, presented as my own obese (and post-obese) body. This exegesis is a written elucidation of my visual art practice as research. As an artist I create performative photographic images featuring taboo or otherwise 'inappropriate' subject matter, situations, materials and behaviours including bodily fluids, offal, internal organs and my own post-obese body. Through these modes of working, I establish and investigate the subjectivity of flesh: Why are we repulsed by the female grotesque? How can this flesh be used to subvert readings of the female body? My research is informed by those understandings of the female body, sexuality and difference described in the work of feminist theorists including Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, Ruth Salvaggio and Elizabeth Grosz. I explore the work of influential artists such as Eleanor Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. In this context, I present my own visual art practice as a point from which the monstrous-feminine can be given voice as sentient, intelligent flesh. Visual Art Practice-Led Research Obesity Fat Monstrous-feminine She-Monster Female Grotesque Other Feminism Psychoanalysis Autobiography Subjectivity Abjection Carnivalesque Photography Performance art The Uncanny Trauma Identity Trickster Vampire Young British Art Sarah Lucas Hayley Newman Carolee Schneeman Eleanor Antin Ruth Salvaggio Julia Kristeva Sigmund Freud Helene Cixous

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