The archetypes of "bogeyman" and "final girl" within the slasher horror sub-genre: an enquiry into socio-cultural values

Description

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Master in Arts
In the Department of Film and Television
Faculty of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
March 2017 / Drawing on Carol Clover’s theory of the male antagonist or "Bogeyman" and the female protagonist or
"Final Girl" that define the American Slasher Horror sub-genre, I analyzed two original Slasher films,
namely Halloween (Carpenter 1978) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven 1984). I later outlined the
evolution of these conventions within the Slasher sub-genre, using the remakes of both films respectively.
I then endeavoured to explain the subversion of these conventions in France with the New French
Extremity Movement, and analyse how these filmmakers successfully transposed a typical American subgenre
to France. Finally, using New French Extremity, I attempted to subvert and transpose these
conventions to South Africa by writing, producing and directing a short Slasher film titled The Teddy
Bear Man. / MT2018

Links & Downloads

1. Wentzel, Gareth Peter (2017) The archetypes of "Bogeyman" and "Final girl" within the slasher horror sub-genre: an enquiry into socio-cultural values, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23887>
2. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23887

Tags

Horror films

Feminism and motion pictures

Feminist film criticism

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/23887
Date	January 2017
Creators	Wentzel, Gareth Peter
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Thesis
Format	Online resource (43 leaves), application/pdf, application/pdf