The representation of women in horror

 1. Who wrote about the ‘Final Girl’ in 1992

-Carol Clover

 2. In what book did they write about the ‘Final Girl’?

- ‘Men, women and chainsaw’s

3. List three traits of the ‘Final Girl’/ three ‘conventions’

- Androgynous (name, clothing, hair etc.) virginal and fights back.

4. Who wrote about the existing research on women’s roles in media texts in 1983?

-Jeremy Tunstall

5. What were the four roles mentioned?

-Domestic (housewife)/ Marital (wife)/ Sexual (an object)/ Consumer (who buys the product)

6. In 1992 research showed that men dominated women on screen, but by what ratio?

-2:1

7. What was the only genre in which the ratio of men to women was more equal?

-Adverts

8. Name one of three problems with the findings?

-Women were still shown more in the house while men were shown outside doing active things rather than cleaning or cooking. 

9. Why does the reading suggest that Ripley (Alien) is ‘more progressive’ than Lara Croft (TR)?

-While both fight back, Sigourney Weaver is less sexualised than Lara Croft and after fighting, Weaver actually looks like she has just been in a fight whereas Croft is still sexualised. 

10. What are the three C’s when discussing the portrayal of women in some lifestyle magazines?

-Cooking, Cleaning and Caring

11. Who wrote ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’?

-Laura Mulvey

12. (Briefly) describe what is meant by the ‘Male Gaze’?

-The way media portrays women in a way to appeal to the male audience. This can be achieved by camera angles (putting the audience in the perspective of a heterosexual  showing women in a sexual way or by the clothes they are dressed in.

13. Give an example:

-An example of this would be p.o.v camera angles and reaction shots.

     14. Which magazine removed the male centerfold in the 1980’s and why?

-Cosmopolitan removed their naked male centerfold after people found it 
funny rather than sexualised, which 
was the norm for that time.