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SoSe 19: Men, Women and Chainsaws: Female Empowerment and Male Identification in American Horror Films

Talel Ben Jemia

Kommentar

Carol J. Clover’s book Men, Women and Chainsaws (1992) marks an incisive (feminist) intervention with respect to gender politics and the “Final Girl”-trope in American horror films, particularly its subgenre of the Teen Slasher. Clover scrutinizes perceptions of an innate misogyny of the Slasher and provides critical readings that suggest emancipatory and transgressive interpretations of films such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978), among others. This seminar will explore the tension of regressive sexual politics and empowering potentials of these films which, as Clover argues, are primarily targeting a male audience – an assumption we will seek to complicate. The films we will watch will include some of Clover’s examples from the 1970s and 1980s, but we will also look at more recent entries to the increasingly self-reflexive canon. ----- The seminar will begin in the second week of the semester (first session: April 18) but the syllabus and introductory reading by Clover will be made available on Blackboard by April 11. Please sign up as soon as possible. If you have trouble doing so, please send me an email to talel@zedat.fu-berlin.de Schließen

12 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 10:00 - 12:00 12 Termine

Do, 18.04.2019 10:00 - 12:00

Dozenten:
Talel Ben Jemia