Laura Mulvey argues that within a film text, the male characters are said to control the look while the female characters connote the ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’. Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist and her article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (1975) outlines her concept of how feminism presents itself in Classical Hollywood film. Mulvey begins…
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‘My Bloody Valentine’ (1981) in Relation to Vera Dika’s “The Stalker Film” Essay
The stalker or slasher film is a phenomenon that began in the late 1970s with John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), reaching nationwide markets during 1978 – 1981. Halloween inspired many stalker films which all share a set group of cinematic and narrative elements, put in place by Carpenter. Many directors copied its style in the hope of replicating its success….