"To apprehend in specific terms the nature of that mutation, let us, with Psycho as the benchmark, survey the genre by component category: killer, locale, weapons, victimes, and shock effect" (26). Clover trying to teach us the tropes of the genre, writ large
weapon
weapons as sexual characteristic: "(32) her reading of I Spit on Her Grave and castration. : "closeness and tactility are also at issue" (32); her reading of Leatherface in TCM 2 (pg 26)
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Victims
young beautiful women. Bevy of women: "where once there was one victim [...] now there are many" (men like MORE beautiful women)
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the killer
the psychosis, the sexual psycho trauma, the mommy issues, the "gender confusion" (26-8). "a mother-fixated would-be transsexual" (28)
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