Consider the episodes screened in class in relation to any of the following topics:
(You can just stick to one, or combine two if you see interconnections)
- The Male Gaze
- The Female Gaze
- To-Be-Looked-At-ness
- Female (as) spectacle
- Male (as) spectacle
- Female spectacle as power vs. the threat of the unseen female
- The gaze as power vs. the look as desire
- The woman’s look (at the male monster) as recognition of affinity with the monster
- The possibilities of more fluid identification, or identification with characters who do not align with the viewer’s gender, race, or sexuality (i.e. Ask yourself: who do you identify with as you view? Does your identification line up along lines of gender, race, or sexuality?)