CARRIE

Some notes which state an argument that Carrie is a misogynistic film -

http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/3/4.extract

TIMELINE PREP/CLASSWORK

Hello guys. Here are the specifics of what I'd like you to do for the timeline.

1) Create something that is creative and original with visuals - posters, images of history, etc.

2) Add things that happening during horror films - 9/11, the atomic bomb, WW1/WW2, the threat of war, aids/HIV epidemic, role of women, etc. Social/historical information.

3) I'd like you to add relevant theories of horror too! Final Girl (when it came out and who it was by) and Male Gaze (when it came out and who it was by). I'd also like you to find your own theories too!

3) I would like you to add the following films on your timeline as this is what we are watching/will watch in class and also pinpoint when the first horror films came out.

4) Please can you add only relevant events in reference to these films - not just random stuff! Information on the commercial success of these films is great too!


EVIL DEAD

HALLOWEEN

PSYCHO

CARRIE

ROSEMARY'S BABY

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

FRIDAY 13TH

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

NOSFERATEAU

DRACULA

THE HILLS HAVE EYES

CHERNOBYL DIARIES

SCREAM
THE OMEN

THE EXORCIST

DAWN OF THE DEAD & THE REST OF THE GEORGE A. ROMERO ZOMBIE FILMS 

BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

INSIDEOUS

THE ORPHAN

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

JAWS

ALIENS

MALE GAZE - LAURA MULVEY

Laura Mulvey and the Male Gaze 

Laura Mulvey and her theory of the Male gaze influenced by the works of Freud, is key to the Feminist Film theory movement and has been of great influence since the mid 1970's. Mulvey argues that in classic hollywood films in particular women are merely represented to provide visual pleasure to men, and the audience is constructed in a manner where they are all expected to be men. This male gaze is both voyeuristic and fetishistic. 

Her concept of "to-be-looked-at-ness", exemplifies that women were merley shown on screen in classic hollywood in order to provide men with visual pleasure and have an erotic impact. Mulvey argued that the typical key protaganist within a classic hollywood film was male and the audience members where similarly typically expected to be men. The typical male audience member is alligned with the films protagonist, by identification, admiration or aspiration. Therefore the audience member gains narcissistic pleasure from identifying with the films protagonist, placing themselves "in the shoes" of the films hero. 

Further the infulence of Freud an influnetial pyschoanalytic theorist to Laura Mulvey's theory is the idea of castration anxiety which is what a person unconciously think. For example if a woman was not objectified in the way she was in classic hollywood or placed in a position of lower authority a male would not feel as powerful. This unconcious idea is that a males power and dominance over a female is his sex drive and his dominance is threatened by a woman if she does not arouse this.

SCREAM notes

Scream notes from Emily Bell

THEORIES TO LEARN!

Clover’s Theory: The Final Girl

 

Oct1

by thealeaney

The Final Girl Theory is a concept within thriller and horror films, that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, who then is left to tell the story. A common plot line in many horror films, particularly prior to the 1990s, is where a series of victims get killed off one by one leaving which builds up the climax in which the last person standing from the group, a female, either defeats the killed or gets away.
According to Clover the final girl in many typical horror fillm plots share a common characteristic, she is typically sexually unavailable or virginal and they sometimes have a unisex name, such as, Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sidney. Also, occasionally the final girl has a shared history with the killer, for example, in Halloween II, Michael Myers is revealed to be the brother of Laurie Strode, in Scream 1, Sidney Prescott’s boyfriend, Billy Loomis, is the killed and in Scream 3, the killed is revealed to be Roman Bridger, half brother of Sidney. The final girl is the ‘investigating consciousness’ of the film, moving the narrative forward and as such, she exhibits intelligence curiosity and vigilance.

The final girl theory has been used in dozens of  horror films, including:

Friday the 13th (2009)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Final Destination (2000)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Hellraiser (1987)

The Strangers (2008)

Terror Train (1980)

Event Horizon (1997)

 The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Resident Evil (2002)

These final girls’ confront the object of horror within their film. They all follow the stereotype of the final girl as they start off ordinary and innocent or as for Wendy from ‘The Shining’ maternal and then lead to protecting themselves with a weapon, giving a sense of sudden masculinity.

Alien (1979), Ellen Ridley

The Shining (1980), Wendy Terrance

Scream (1996), Sidney Prescott

Notes on BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

ON THE MARKETING

http://www.sagindie.org/indieblog/witch-hunt-a-look-back-at-the-beginnings-of-viral-marketing-and-its-impact-on-today

ON THE STYLE OF HORROR

http://madisonmovie.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/the-frankenstein-theory-the-found-footage-horror-genre-is-still-alive-alive/

DUE 13th JUNE (THURSDAY)

Due June 13th - all templates below...

STORYBOARDS
LOCATION PICTURES WITH ANNOTATIONS/IMAGES
CAST/CREW LISTS
PROPS/COSTUMES LIST
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

Lists of any sound effects, music, stock footage (if you're using it!)