Screening Prompts: Nightmare/Buffy/SPN

With Williams and Clover in mind

a) How do these media texts represent the female who actively looks/desires? How does the trope of the final girl play out in these texts? Do they all feature final girls? How about… final boys?

b) How do they represent the monster in relationship to masculinity, femininity, and normativity?

c) How do they represent relationship between the female and the monster?

d) Do these text  feature the feminized spectacle of abject horror?

e) What role do you feel gender plays in your viewing of horror-inflected texts?

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