Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Sample Questions and Answers on Horror Movies: Slasher


Readings containing answers:
Pinedo, Isabel Cristina. “And Then She Killed Him: Women and Violence in the Slasher Film.” Introduction to Film Studies Readings.

PowerPoint file:
Gendered Horror

1.     Which of the following apply to the movie You’re Next? (Choose more than one if applies)
a)     Females are objectified.
b)     Males are objectified.
c)     Monsters are objectified.
d)    Objects are objectified

2.     The minefield of the contemporary horror film, with its bloody display of the all-too-often female body in bits and pieces, is fraught with danger for …………….

3.     In studies of horror film the female viewer is accused of …………….

4.     According to PowerPoint file for this week (Gendered Horror), what is the first Slasher sub-genre movie?

5.     ……………. spectatorship of horror is a much neglected and misunderstood topic

6.     What can be a proof for horror film being a pleasure for men?
a)     Men feel sympathy with victims in the horror film
b)     Little boys and grown men make it a point of horror to look, while little girls and grown women cover their eyes or hide behind the shoulders of their dates.
c)     Women feel satisfied when watching a horror film
d)     Men hold their girlfriends’, sisters’, or mothers’ when watching a horror film, while women feel sorry for the monsters.

7.     Carol Clover advances the idea that the primary pleasure for male viewers of the genre is a … rather than a ……………. one

8.     The female spectator who is truly deprived of ‘solace and...

9.     Barbara Creed, who turns her attention to female monstrosity, maintains that the monstrous- feminine in the horror film speaks to men about their ……………. of women


10.  The feminist movement, founded on the imperative that women must be free to control their own bodies, has repeatedly drawn attention to the issue of …………….

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