Hayter, Tamiko Southcott2006-11-162006-11-162006-11-16http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1799Student Number : 9803476V - MA research report - School of Arts - Faculty of HumanitiesBy 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.390949 bytes11515 bytesapplication/pdfapplication/pdfenThe Blair Witch Projectspectatorshippsychoanalytic film theoryhorrorfilm conventionsgenderabjectionmonstrous femininemasochismThesis