Miskatonic, Mo Mashaty and From Inside The House: Women's Trauma in Horror Cinema
Doors: 7pm. The talk will begin at 7:15. Please don’t be late.
In this lecture, we deep dive into the analysis of key characters in horror cinema, their stories, and the traumas they reflect within five key categories: Possessed, Vengeful, Grief-stricken, Hysterical, and Objectified.
By exploring these portrayals, I aim to shed light on how horror films mirror real-life fears and societal anxieties through their female characters. The female presence in horror has generated not only a mass of financial revenue for the genre, but also created a mainstay of horror focus. They are the main protagonist, the victim, the villain, the antagonist and the expendable but within these roles we can clearly classify them into five distinct categories, which can be taught as a whole or separately.
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