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Female Victimization In The 1970s And 1980s Slasher Film, Sarah Lukowski
Female Victimization In The 1970s And 1980s Slasher Film, Sarah Lukowski
Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects
To examine this portrayal of women in 1970s and 1980s slashers, I will first provide background on the genre using the influential films The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978), and from there I will define the genre in accordance with its characteristics and formulaic conventions. Clover’s groundbreaking work (1987; 1992), offers a feminist perspective on slasher films and will provide substantial evidence throughout my paper. Then, I will compare and contrast multiple content analyses from the 1980s to the 2000s that use empirical studies to evaluate the degree to which women are victimized in slashers by the …