Perverse pleasures: Spectatorship- The blair witch project

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dc.contributor.authorHayter, Tamiko Southcott
dc.date.accessioned2006-11-16T11:02:28Z
dc.date.available2006-11-16T11:02:28Z
dc.date.issued2006-11-16T11:02:28Z
dc.descriptionStudent Number : 9803476V - MA research report - School of Arts - Faculty of Humanitiesen
dc.description.abstractBy drawing on contemporary scholarship that addresses spectatorship in the cinema generally, and in the horror genre specifically, I analyze the perverse pleasure afforded by The Blair Witch Project. To do this I argue that pleasure in horror is afforded through the masochistic positioning of the viewer, especially in relation to psychoanalytic theories surrounding gender in spectator positioning. I also look at the way the film re-deploys conventions, both documentary conceptions of the ‘real’, as well as generic expectations of horror, to activate the perverse pleasure of horror.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/1799
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectThe Blair Witch Projecten
dc.subjectspectatorshipen
dc.subjectpsychoanalytic film theoryen
dc.subjecthorroren
dc.subjectfilm conventionsen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectabjectionen
dc.subjectmonstrous feminineen
dc.subjectmasochismen
dc.titlePerverse pleasures: Spectatorship- The blair witch projecten
dc.typeThesisen
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