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Scream (1996) (Larger implication: (critique of unquestioned access to…
Scream (1996)
Larger implication:
critique of unquestioned access to women's bodies; what if women get a say about what happens to them?
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Opening scene
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"I want to know who I'm looking at" zoom in--questions about gendered gazing, "peeping tom"
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Billy and Stu: shot intimately with close ups--reinforces the "trapped" feeling, definitely invokes sex and death/sex as death
no motive; but then "slut-bag" places the burden on the women/makes women's sexuality the motive. (Maybe shows that's not a real motive?)
"get it up"--homoerotic tension with Billy and Stu stabbing? 90s sexual repression and closeted desire?
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Sidney sex scene:
parallels with Halloween's Lynda's "obligatory tit shot" and Syd; also critiques the tropes/normative shots
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Intertextuality: Sid and Laurie in the closet; reverses the trope by having her leap out instead of being the recipient of violence
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Sid puts on the ghostface role: reverse anonymous power of the mask; filme din low angle, takes the mask off
The Rules scene: sets up the standard expectations, only to undermine/critique the rules
Stu's death: meta-film; shows Laurie Strode with knife on TV, thinks about the ways movies are weapons; helps empower or desitgmatize? Critiques the ways women are made vulnerable in film
Sid as final girl: very satisfying to have that closure and that shot. "Not in my movie" the lack of reservations. Revises and changes some of Clover's points about The Final Girl
90s events: The Frontier Middle School Shooting (Stephen King writes about it) Feb 2, 1996; Columbine years later "school safety"; OJ Simpson trial and coverage