NAME AND SURNAME: Ezachia Ngcobo

STUDENT NUMBER: 0514961J

COURSE NAME: Spectatorship in the cinema-horror

COURSE NUMBER: DRAA 342

LECTURER: Catherine Duncan

DUE DATE: 31 October 2007

ESSAY TOPIC: Carol Clover argues that, in particular the slasher film disturbs the traditional model of spectatorship and identification. "As the character who lives to tell the tale of horror, the final girl, Clover argues, must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason the final girl's gender is ambiguous. The final girl is boyish says Clover and she adds, what filmmakers seem to know better than film critics is that gender is less a wall than a permeable membrane.

Using appropriate references to films covered in the course debate whether there is evidence to support this position. You will first need to define what is meant by spectatorial identification and how this is produced by the cinematic apparatus. Then go on to discuss Clover's argument......

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Title: The Final Girl
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