conservative and progressive horror
I'd like to ask all horror fans for some help while preparing for a presentation in my class... I want to talk about progressive and conservative elements in horror films (racist, anti-racist,...
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I'll have to think about this while I'm gardening today. One thing to start with, look up the root meanings for lycathropy, zombie, and vampire. Some to start with; Frit Lang's M, Dr. Mabuse, and...
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Quote:I'll have to think about this while I'm gardening today. Oh ya, me too... Of course, I'll have to dig down under two feet of snow to find the garden, but what the heck... ;) Re: the whole...
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They really don't paint the best pictures of men either. We tend to be depicted as very weak psychologically; male characters are utterly incapable of dealing with loss, rejection, or humilation and...
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<<"High school pranks, disastrous relationships, and family misfortunes are the launching pads for the mad slashers these movies seem to posit are in all of us poor, damaged men.">> Don't...
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Quote:I want to talk about progressive and conservative elements in horror films (racist, anti-racist, feminist, anti-feminist issues) with examples of movies that illustrate these issues. I would...
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In the '30s, artists were reacting to the repressiveness, hypocrisy and social injustice of Victorian times, and so monsters like Frankenstein's were portrayed as misfits who were not understood by...
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Quote:I'd like to ask all horror fans for some help while preparing for a presentation in my class...I don't want to appear to discourage you, but are you sure that so "broad a subject" is possible...
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For a thought-provoking read on the "last girl" syndrome in slasher films, try Carol Clover's MEN, WOMEN, & CHAINSAWS, if you can find it. I've always been interested in the idea of the...
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Quote:By the '80s, the Conservative movement had convinced Americans that all our problems stemmed from "alien" invaders who, like the Christian Devil, were inherently evil, bent on the destruction of...
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Quote:The '60s featured horrors that were Existential, like Hitchcock's "The Birds", or Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", where bad things happen just because they happen, and innocents suffer for...
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n0s4a2, likewise I don't find any part of your analysis holds water. For instance, your "circling the wagons" metaphor for the 1980s could just as well be applied to the home fortresses in the '60s...
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I think people can read as much or as little into movies as they want - what is intended by the filmmakers is quite often, in my opinion, very different from what film "scholars" and reviewers read...
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Quote: You don't see classical paintings of naked men adorning the walls of art museumsVisit the statue collection.
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Quote:Visit the statue collection. Of course, you're correct. And when I was in art school we had both male and female nudes we drew. Can't study the human figure otherwise. But I'm talking about...
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There are obivous choices for political dissection when it comes to horror/sci films... "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Silent Running" and "An American Werewolf in London" to name a few. To limit...
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Quote:I think people can read as much or as little into movies as they want - what is intended by the filmmakers is quite often, in my opinion, very different from what film "scholars" and reviewers...
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Quote:Visit the statue collection. And check out the hundreds of paintings of St. Sabastian.
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Well, I had cited the classic art reference just to make a point. What we are getting into here is more a discussion of art vs. entertainment. I remember in college I had a professor who told me that...
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This has been covered before, but what it seems you are suggesting is that finding meaning in a film where none is intented is somehow invalid. I don't believe this is true. Anyone who has had any...
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Quote:Please don't take any of this as hostile--real discussions are getting too rare here, and I don't want to foil this one! Oh no, none taken! Good stuff here. I understand where you're coming from...
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