Browsing by Subject "Female body"
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The cinematic witch : the development of the witch in popular horror films
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)The film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) established certain conventions related to the witch horror film genre. These conventions are specifically related to the witch’s body and her supernatural abilities and ... -
The representation of the female body/embodiment in selected mainstream American films
(North-West University, 2014)In her article “Visual pleasure and narrative cinema” (1975) Laura Mulvey explains how film portrays the female characters as passive sexualised objects, on display for the male (erotic) gaze. Although, Mulvey did make ...