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1	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