#1 - Motif - The Woman Left Behind
The Whore
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The Wife
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(The Lecher)
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The Daughter
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(The Father)
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The Child
4 comments:
great insight! this has never occured to me before but it makes perfect sense considering the film's embrace of the vulnerable female theme.
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Ignominiously it took an IMDb message board topic to alert me to this, but I think it's pretty darn cool that, after the first murder, all the subsequent deaths are only of men.
I hadn't thought of that either. There's a pretty cool essay I read once called "Her Body, Himself" which argued that slasher films with female leads are inherently feminist texts in that they force what is usually an audience made up of mostly men to relate to and cheer for the woman. I think something like TCM is a perfect example of this but I never considered it for Eaten Alive but maybe it could apply in a weird way. Anyway I'm really digging this site right now, keep it up.
Thanks man! I've really enjoyed your thoughts and appreciate the kind words!
I have at one point read that Carol Clover essay. It is interesting trying to figure out how much Hooper's works really play into Clover's thesis. Neither film seems very concerned with the psychoanalytical, but TCM definitely does have Leatherface, the mutant Other reflective of the female, and EATEN ALIVE has the feminist undertones and victims murdered under terms of their sexuality... but then TCM doesn't have sexualized victims and EA only has a deranged Neville Brand! (who seems hardly feminine-identified...)
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