Gender Roles In Horror Films

Not only were women punished for their womanhood, they were humiliated and sexually exposed before and after their act of having sex more often than male nonsurvivors. Cowen et al ’s conclusion that women are punished and humiliated when they have sex in monster narratives sheds light on the sexist double standard of men having sex in the monster narratives. In the article “Sexuality and the Vampire, “author J. Gordon Melton states, “The vampire was believed to have such an intense sexual drive that his sexual need alone was sufficient to bring him back from the grave” (203-204).

Initially when she encounters The Misfit, she reverts to her status to save her, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady would you?” but she quickly realizes that it holds no power and she resorts to her religious beliefs, encouraging love and patience and coaxing him to pray. She is calm and

The Alpha male is a common character type in horror films, he is the sporty one who tries to take on the roll of the leader of the group he also tries hard to look tough and masculine. Ways he attempts to do this include picking on other characters, not showing emotions and taking risks. He is commonly goodlooking,narcissistic, sexualised,muscular, tall, unintelligent, ignorant,strong, a womanizer, confident,arrogant, obnoxious, loud or tough. He fits the jock stereotype. Throughout his time alive in the film he tries his best to keep his tough guy persona on, this usually dosent help him at all and leads to his demise as it more often not the Alpha Male that tries to fight off the villain to show off as well as protect his friends when

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Insidious easily fits the film conventions of the horror genre and themes. Insidious incorporates classic horror elements like haunted houses, ghosts, children being possessed, and outside experts of the spiritual world. A family with three children start to witness things out of the ordinary and are unable to understand what they are seeing. The mother, for instance, knew she was seeing strange deities, but her husband refused to believe it and thought she was just out of it. The classic element of denying there is anything out of the ordinary going on is a classic horror element. Typically the people who deny the reality that there might be something supernatural happening, are the first people to be killed or affected in some manner.

     From early childhood, children are taught traits that are conceptualized as typically male and female normative patterns through toys. They don’t know it but sex dimorphism is actually happening while they are playing with their toys. Toys such as building sets, trucks, cars, sports equipment and war toys (guns and soldiers) are usually bought for and played with by young boys. What these boys don’t realize is

Most concerns are with the important positioning called the final character that happens to be a girl, with relationship to spectator. There are theories that are used to analyze the movie as a male character. There is where popular culture evolves in that every last or final person in a horror movie is always a woman or girl. The serial attacker or the killer usually turns out to be a male. Ironical how women are viewed as weak and fearful people they are always the ones that end up being the last people. The final girl is structurally meant to make an interesting impact to the audience so that it can be watched by almost

Horror movies throughout history have been known to have their cheesy storylines or continuous bad acting. Especially horror movies. People nowadays could easily spot the flaws in a film and judge them drastically in reviews. Yet, little do people notice the ongoing discrimination between genders. Horror films tend to portray males and females substantially differently because of stereotypical views. There seems to be a pattern in which each gender takes a certain role in a movie continuously. Females are shown to be “objects” such as sex and emotional symbols, while males are shown as strong or powerful and moreover as the main bad guy. Although some of the newer edition films of the horror genre are displaying each gender more and more equal throughout the ongoing years, the gender discrimination dilemma still exists and can be seen by the statistics in the movie industry in general.

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Since the inventions of television and film, media influences have become extremely important in modern society with people constantly being inundated by images and messages that come from film, television, magazines, internet and advertising. Researchers and theorists such as Carol J. Clover and Jean Kilborne believe that the fact that people are going to be affected by the media is absolutely unavoidable. Films can act as guides to how people, particularly women, should act and look. Women in horror are typically shown as the ‘damsel in distress’ and are usually attacked by the killer after committing a sinful act like having sex or misusing drugs or alcohol. The females are

In music theory and authenticity it is still authentic if a song generally and written as a part for the opposite sex is performed by the other sex. Now we have to define the fact that gender is a complete construct, to begin with, and there are more than the two genders in general. So, therefore, making the whole discussion in consideration invalid. But, I digress these and we can brush this with the fact most music has very heteronormative and gendered lyrics to make it more marketable to the general populace. Now if we look at the history of music often men were castrated so they would sing higher and thus this continued to push women out of jobs they were able to do.

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Phedre illustrates the attitude of men toward women in the Age of Reason and political Absolutism, in which men represent logic, order, and strength while women represent emotions, weakness, and disorder. Using evidence from the play, discuss how Racine’s Phedre reinforces the stereotype of woman as a destructive force in nature, known as a femme fatale.

Throughout the history of society, women and men both have faced the constricting roles forced upon them, from a young age; each gender is given specific social and cultural roles to play out throughout their lives. Little girls are given dolls and kitchen toys, little boys are given dinosaurs and power tool toys, if one was to step out of this specified role, social conflict would ensue. Contrast to popular belief, sex is a biological construct, and gender is a social construct specifying the roles men and women are to follow to be accepted into society as “normal”. The effects of gender roles have had on women have proved harmful over the decades. Although the woman’s involvement in society has improved throughout the decades,

“For the concept of the monstrous feminine, as constructed within/by a patriarchal and phallocentric ideology, is related intimately to the problem of sexual differences and castration.” (Creed, 1993, p.2) Creed takes an interesting approach to Kristeva theory of abjection and Freud’s theory of castration and applies it to horror film. Taking Kristeva’s theory of the abject and the archaic mother, she constructs monstrous representations of the abject woman. The monstrous womb which is the representation of mans fear of woman’s maternal functions. “Fear of the archaic mother turns out to be essentially fear of her generative power. It is this power, a dreaded one, that patrilineal filiation has the burden of subduing.” (Kristeva, 1982, p.77) Freud argued that woman terrifies because she is castrated. “Castration fear plays on a collapse of gender boundaries” (Creed, 1993, p.54) She suggests, that Freud misread Han’s fear in the Little Hans and that Han’s viewed his mothers as the castrator not his father, that his mother’s lack of phallus is seen not as a castrated organ but that of a castrating organ. The mother-child border is entangled in the complex and multi-faceted image of the castrating mother. According to Freud, man fears that of the mother as castrated and as that of the cannibalistic all devouring mother. “Construction of a patriarchal ideology unable to deal with the threat of sexual differences as it is embodied in the images of the feminine as archaic mother and is seen as the castrated mother.” (Creed, 1993, p.22) Kristeva suggests that the notion of the castrated women is to ease mans fear of woman, who has the power to psychologically and physically castrate him. The archaic mother as the monstrous womb and the castrating mother can be used as a way of understanding the work of Mona Hatoum and AIne Phillips, both