Masculinity In Horror Movies

Both men and women’s virginity are that of different expectations and rewards. Men, for instance, are praised for losing their virginity while women are punished. Monster narratives punish the women whom have sex by killing them off, while the men are praised and gifted with life. According to the study, “Gender and Survival vs. Death in Slasher Films: A Content Analysis” conductors Cowen et al state, “Female nonsurvivors wore revealing and provocative clothing, were nude, were shown undressing, and were presented as promiscuous more frequently than male nonsurvivors...” (191).

The American Dream can mean a number of different things to number of different people. Over the years this ideal has evolved and its definition will continue to change for many more years to come. What has not changed is the desire to achieve this dream. For decades now, people from all over the world have immigrated to the United States with hopes of obtaining this dream. However it seems that, to many immigrants the American dream has a very different and more modest definition. To many foreigners it means having the basic necessities in life and giving their children opportunities and life they ever had. Immigration can be a good and a bad thing. On one hand the overall standard of living is better but on the other hand it is almost

In “Riding the Bull at Gilleys,” Scully and Marolla depict the psychopathological and the socio-cultural models of rape. The psychopathological model is a representation of what psychotherapist have used for years to explain the reasoning behind rape. With this model, rape is the result of an eccentric mental dysfunction, which symptoms include involuntary and uncontrollable sexual impulses. These sexual impulses may be temporary, repetitive, long lasting or brief. This model also implies that male sexual aggression is abnormal, therefore; psychologists do not seek any other rational explanation. Mainly, the psychopathological model ignores any correlational factors linking male sexual aggression to learned social behavior.

In American Horror Story: Coven, the Supreme witch, Fiona, holds a role showing that personality traits can be derived from status, as Fiona, a female, displays stereotypical masculinity. This defies the reality that throughout many, many years, the status of men have always been much higher than that of women. With this, men are typically perceived as decisive, goal-oriented, independent, or even arrogant, while women are typically perceived as supportive, helpful, or even submissive. This stems from early history, where men consistently are remembered for fighting in wars, perhaps because of the typical physical traits men tend to have, which differ from women. From these points in time where men gained status, laws continued to go against women, as if they are submissive, such as the prevention of female voting, the shortened female work day, and the denial of birth control access.

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

Upon further probing, there is perhaps a deeper terror rooted in Frankenstein, which subtly appears to stem his hesitancy at creating not just another monster, but specifically a female monster. Because Victor Frankenstein fears the existence of a female free of restrictions that he cannot impose, he destroys her, thus eliminating the female’s options of becoming either completely feminine through becoming a mother and mate, or totally unfeminine by opting to leave her partner and face the world alone.

When "Bates Motel" begins, Norman seems to be a normal teenage boy, who is a bit of an introvert. He prefers school work and reading to going out and being social. He has an extremely

Prejudice is a large problem in today’s society. Prejudice is having a preconceived opinion not based on reason or fact. Prejudice is all around us and is extremely prevalent daily lives. Because of bias, people are often judged, mistreated, hurt, and abused unfairly. Prejudice is such a widespread problem in society that many people have accepted, and even encouraged it because of its many examples in history, literature, and current events.

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.

Norman is criminalized but as a psychotic he cannot be kept in prison and so is put in an asylum. He cannot be justified even though he has gotten away with Marion for the sake of his long dead mother. The obsession and love for his long dead mother never help him to lead a normal life. Norman’s love for his mother makes him act like her and from his point of view his actions are right which is very clear from the parlor scene. Here the son who has lost his father early and a mother who has to marry another one are not responsible. The mother fixation of Norman is to be blamed entirely for his tragedy and others. Social institutions like marriage and family are involved here. The crime here is premeditated and violent. Norman Bates contorted by psychosis and dual personality syndrome, acts out his homicidal urges in the guise of his dead mother. His masochism suffers while seeing a sexually attractive woman as he already had a substitute marriage with his mother. Compelled by the split personality syndrome, he commits the crime and at the same time tries to protects her crime and destroys the evidence by washing the blood from the floor and dumping Marion’s body along with the

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

The horror film is known to use numerous tropes and conventions throughout its history. Formulas such as monsters and killers lurking in the shadows, legends of homes with morbid and haunted histories, and an abundance of violence all work together in creating the genre that is known as horror. Another aspect that is widely seen in the horror film in particular is extreme violence against female victims. When looking at this superficially, feminism does not appear to be one of the conventions of the horror film. In fact it may seem that the horror genre uses this visual medium to perpetuate the message that women should be looked at as victims worthy of gruesome deaths.

Normans mother is dead, but is alive in the mind of Norman. She is therefore dominating Normans mind. Alfred Hitchcock makes us infer that the mother was alive throughout the film. This manipulates the audience throughout the film. The audience thinks that the mother is alive, and therefore, she can potentially be the killer in the film.

Action movie takes a great part of Chinese cinema, and masculinity is the major issue of this genre which reflected traditional Chinese culture and values. According to Yu's idea of Chinese masculinity in cinema, it mainly represents male-dominated action genres. However, masculinity tradition has been changed since the foundation of new wave wuxia films from the 1960s to 1970s. Yanggang opposites to the traditional view of 'weak male', which means masculinity and macho in modern Chinese society that indicated by Zhang Che, Ideology of Zhang's yanggang aesthetics includes the determination to sacrificed for friendships righteousness, bravery to confront with violence and death, persistence and indefatigability.

Plato’s Republic, a dialogue known and studied by many for its deep teachings in knowledge and education. Consequently, education was something Plato would often talk about, it played a large role in the Allegory of the Cave and can be used as a topic of discussion in schools. Moreover, the allegory of the cave is known for a depiction of men trapped in a cave, unable to escape. Whilst the Analogy of the Sun and Analogy of the Divided Line are not as widely known, they still serve as excellent analogies for the Allegory of the Cave. They can further explain the importance of the good, whilst adding how far the mind and body’s capabilities may further.