FEMINITY IN CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM

One might say that horror film- genre has been invented by feminists. Horror films seem to be one of the only genres that have women as heroines instead of dominated side characters. In horror genre women are the ones fighting against evil and men are the ones dying trying to help these heroines. Or perhaps the horror genre uses heroines to differ it self from hero dominant action genre. Or maybe horror films were created to represent the ultimate horror of the dominant masculine society: a strong woman who can survive by herself. This essay will analyse genders used in contemporary horror genre and it will delve in to the difference of masculinity and femininity presented in present horror films.
As a part of our popular culture, film functions as myth for our society. Through film the ideologies of our social structure are expressed and reproduced. In the case of women's role in society, traditional horror heroines demonstrate predominant......

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Title: Women In Contemporary Horror Films
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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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