A Feminist Reading of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In numerous interviews, creator Joss Whedon has explained that the inspiration for Buffy the Vampire Slayer struck while he was watching horror films and TV shows in which pretty women run away from or get killed by monsters in alleyways. Whedon claims he wanted to give this paradigmatic girl-victim a new role: that of the monster-killing hero. Whedon's explanation of his own artistic inspiration reveals at least two things about him as a film-viewer and maker: first, his description suggests his awareness of the pervasive, archetypal quality of the traditional, mainstream horror film. Second, his description rather coyly fails to account for the more marginal genre of the "slasher film," in which the pretty girl often does kill the monster in the alleyway.
Slasher films have attracted feminist academic attention in recent years, most notably from theorist Carol J. Clover. Clover's groundbreaking article, "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film," was first published in 1987 and continues to influence feminist film critics today. With some success, these critical inquiries have recuperated the genre as one that might actually indicate shifting ideas about gender roles and female agency. Whedon nods both to the "slasher" as a subgenre and to feminist film theory in the Season 3 episode, "Helpless." In "Helpless," Whedon grafts the slasher scenario onto the Buffyverse but makes significant changes, based, I think, both on feminist responses to the genre and also on his own understanding of the show's audience demographics. Though Whedon puts his title character on a continuum with the slasher's female but "boyish" victim-heroes, Buffy b...
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i Lisa Kincaid, "Mister Furious," The 11th Hour Web Magazine (Issue 11, April 2000, http://www.the11thhour.com/archives/042000/features/fury4.html).
ii Clover's "Her Body, Himself" exists as a chapter in Men, Women, and Chain Saws, but my citations are from its earlier incarnation as a journal article in Representations (Number 20: Fall 1987, pp. 187-228).
iii Though the episode's dialogue changes from shooting script to transcript, the set descriptions I found there confirmed my guesses about the atmosphere the writers/directors intended to create.
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that females tend to always overcome a situation at some point throughout the film.
Initially the setting of the story is on a yacht in the Carribbean. Rainsford is involved in small talk with his friend, Whitney, and the conversation is about their favorite hobby, hunting big game. The fact that these men could afford a hunting trip to the Amazon speaks of their wealth, and these men have apparently taken several trips together. General Zaroff is not unlike Rainsford in this respect. From his childhood, Z...
Since the beginning of time, women have been seen as different from men. Their beauty and charms have been interpreted as both endearing and deadly to men. In the Bible, it was Eve’s mistake that led to humanity’s exile from the Garden of Eden. However, unlike in the Bible, in today’s world, women who drive men to ruin do not do so through simple mistakes and misunderstandings, they do so while fully aware of what effects their sexuality can cause. One thing remains constant through these portrayals of women, and that is that they are portrayed as flawed creations and therefore monstrous. It is a woman’s sex drive and sexuality that can lead to her monstrosity. The femme fatale is an enticing, exquisitely beautiful, erotic character who plays the ultimate trick of nature: she displays her beauty, captures the man and goes in for the kill. Films such as Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction and stories such as Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain the Green Knight use the femme fatale as a means of making a woman into a monster; the femme fatale can never win in the battle of the sexes. But what is it that makes the femme fatale such a dangerously character for the hero as well as the readers or viewers?
Even though these were some good reasons on why he would not go hunting, there are also reasons why he would go hunting. First, he beat General Zaroff a person who has been training for many years. Also there was a little gift that he got at the end where he got to sleep in a luxury bed. If he keeps getting gifts like that he might continue hunting. Lastly, I think Rainsford had a little thrill in this hunting job. Hunting is usually mean but when you hunt a human. You never know what might happen.
The overall purpose of Carol Clover’s essay “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film” is to illustrate the repetitive, predictable aspect that Slasher
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Horror Genre The horror genre has very set conventions and rules and horror films
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After a long good look at the jaguar, Rainsford merely turned the other way. He walked away as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders. Even though he would have to redefine what his whole life was about, he didn’t care. He realized he was cured from ignorance and blindness. Now he knew that animals were no different from humans. They had feelings too. They could love, hate, and fear. In the end, Rainsford sold the chauteau to some businessmen. He returned to New York City where he dedicated his entire life to protecting the animals. He fought every animal protection law and gave countless speeches around the globe. When Whitney found him and asked him what happened to him, he merely said, “I realized what I was meant to do.”
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