"To what extent are gender roles in horror remakes like 'Bates Motel' adapted for contemporary audiences?" (exploited to create narrative)
Essay Summary:
- Introduction: gender roles/horror + introduce texts
- About Bates Motel & Gender Roles in it
- About Psycho & Gender Roles in it
- Evolution of Gender Roles in history
- Difference between BM + Psycho
- Conclusion
1. Introduction
- Define horror
- Define gender
- Introduce Bates Motel (using Psycho)
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- sensational slasher film
- one of the key works of our age
- challenged the notions of exactly what a reboot can be
- the legacy of a beloved classic of the macabre with impressive aplomb
2. Bates Motel reinforcing Gender Roles
- thorough, in-depth introduction to Bates Motel
- the typical use of gender and reinforcing of them
- textual analysis proving the positioning of characters
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- It was developed by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, and is produced by Universal Television and American Genre for the cable network A&E
- Wife, mother, daughter, virgin wore, career woman, femme fatale - these are the most popular stereotypes of woman that have been addressed by feminist theorists in their writing on popular cinema. Very little has been written on woman as monster. As with the more critically popular images of woman, those which present woman as monstrous also define her primarily in relation to her sexuality, specifically the abject nature of her maternal and reproductive functions.
- A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life.
- The character’s background will remain similar, stealing money from her boss so she can be with her boyfriend, but her story will be more fleshed out.
- Rihanna takes on the role of Marion Crane in the new series of Bates Motel
- “We’re taking threads of that story and definitely using them so it’s recognisable, it’s just where we go with it is very different,” executive producer Kerry Ehrin said
- “It’s tough to be in a situation where you’re in love with a guy, and for whatever reason, he keeps stalling. You still have all this hot sex with him, and he’s saying he loves you, but he’s stalling. The internal story of that, for a woman, is a really interesting one.” (Kerry Ehrin)
3. Psycho
Historical text - Psycho
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- Hitchcock often represented sex on the screen, by employing such procedures as metaphor or fragmentation
- Sex is indeed the object of suspense
- The auteur theory of Hitchcock has taught us to pay attention to this continuum of motifs, visual and others, which persist from one film to another irrespective of the changed narrative context - 'the woman who knows too much'; 'the person who is suspended from another's hand'; 'the glass full of white drink', etc. The first motif - that of an intellectually superior, but sexually unattractive bespectacled woman who has insight into what remains hidden to others - runs through a series of Hitchcock's film from Spellbound to Psycho.
- Psycho is one of the key works of our age (Robin Wood)
4.The evolution of gender in horror
TV SHOW RATHER THAN FILM - POWER OF TELEVISON NOW IS PRACTICALLY EQUAL TO THE POWER OF FILM.
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5. Differences in Bates Motel from it's original source: psycho
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6. Conclusion
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