Category: Genre Theory
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Sex, Blood, and Stereotypes: How X Challenges Horror’s Sex-Negativity
Created by Kayla Rodgers for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course. Kayla Rodgers discusses horror film tropes and stereotypes through X’s subversion of expectations.
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Incels are Abusing Women: The Gendered Effects of AI
Created by Athena Bouas for Cheryl Simon’s Communications Theory course. Athena Bouas talks about the ever-expanding use of AI and its roots in misogyny.
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Survival Through Dominance in Video Games
Created by Kayliya PS for Magdalena Olzanowski’s Ecocinema: Nature, Bodies, Environments course. Kayliya analyzes the fight for survival between nature and humanity in video games such as Minecraft, the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and more!
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Rebirth Through Water: Cinematic Imaginaries of Transformation and Renewal
Created by Andrew Côté for Dipti Gupta’s Film Theory course. Andrew Côté gives examples of the ‘rebirth’ trope and its visual ties with water.
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Udigrudi: From Underground to the Surface
Created by Stella Avolio for Magdalena Olzanowski’s History of Film Production Techniques class Stella Avolio explains and analyzes the cinematic movement ‘udigrudi,’ a Brazilian subculture that was active between the 1960s and 1970s.
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Romantic Comedies and Romantic Ideals
By Clarisse Boutin and Arielle Simon-Hamel, created for Justine McLellan’s Media and Society course
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Spectatorship Theory’s Relation to Genre Films
By Clarisse Boutin, written for Cheryl Simon’s Film Theory course Since its development in the 1970s, spectatorship theory has become an integral aspect of film studies. This theory explores the connections between cinematic apparatus —including, but not limited to, cinematography, editing, music, and performance— and individual interpretations of a film based on our personal baggage…
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The Rise of Feminist Horror
Written by Lou Tremblay, written for Justine McLellan’s Explorations in Cinema and Communications Winner of the Cheryl Simon Writing Award for Subtext’s Fall 2023 issue It is a well-known fact that the horror genre has not been particularly kind to women. In the past, horror films often have offered tropes, such as the “Final Girl”…
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