The arguments in this article are presented clearly, and they follow a logical organization. Kord uses ample evidence to show how horror film are a payback for people’s failure towards feeling responsible for social, economic, political, and ecological horrors that they themselves inflict on other people, and the world around them. This offers a unique way to analyze the audience of horror films, and understand how horror film elicit guilt by dividing alignment from allegiance or, visual ‘identity’ of people from their moral ‘identification’. The author does present the alternate view regarding how and why horror films are mostly known for perpetuating fear in people. As evidence, Kord uses various examples of horror movies including the 1974
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This source relates to my project by explaining how horror film are the only cinematic genre that routinely makes its audience align with characters with which most people and audience cannot identify – i.e. the portrayal of killers in horror movies. I’m using this source primarily for argument, as it offers an alternate view regarding the genre, and audience of horror films. This source fits in with the other sources I plan to use in my project, as it explains how in horror films the moral identification of audience with the victims presented in these films channels and controls their guilt. I agree with the author’s claim regarding how horror films confront people with their guilt and mechanisms for subduing their guilt sufficiently in order to refrain acting upon …show more content…
Traditionally almost all horror films have focused on treating women in a negative manner. Regardless, from time to time there have been strong female characters that were represented in horror movies. Mehls argues that since most horror films target young adults, some of these women went beyond the traditional roles, and became role models for women. Over recent decades the ways in which women are represented in horror movies, and the means by which women have successfully come out of the shadows has altered the genre of horror films. For the most part, such changes can be attributed to bigger societal movements such as the Second and Third Wave Feminism. The influence of these important societal movements can be witnessed just like the changing space of women in horror
This source relates to my project by explaining how horror film are the only cinematic genre that routinely makes its audience align with characters with which most people and audience cannot identify – i.e. the portrayal of killers in horror movies. I’m using this source primarily for argument, as it offers an alternate view regarding the genre, and audience of horror films. This source fits in with the other sources I plan to use in my project, as it explains how in horror films the moral identification of audience with the victims presented in these films channels and controls their guilt. I agree with the author’s claim regarding how horror films confront people with their guilt and mechanisms for subduing their guilt sufficiently in order to refrain acting upon …show more content…
Traditionally almost all horror films have focused on treating women in a negative manner. Regardless, from time to time there have been strong female characters that were represented in horror movies. Mehls argues that since most horror films target young adults, some of these women went beyond the traditional roles, and became role models for women. Over recent decades the ways in which women are represented in horror movies, and the means by which women have successfully come out of the shadows has altered the genre of horror films. For the most part, such changes can be attributed to bigger societal movements such as the Second and Third Wave Feminism. The influence of these important societal movements can be witnessed just like the changing space of women in horror