The Horror in the Making: A Feminist Film Theory and Ecomedia Studies Approach to Hereditary and Midsommar

dc.contributor.advisorRust, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorBicakci, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-04T19:35:57Z
dc.date.available2022-10-04T19:35:57Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-04
dc.description.abstractAri Aster’s Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) serve as unique and illuminating entry points into a discussion of how to take up both textual analysis of film and production studies through an attention to the material highlighted in both narrative and trade publication interviews. I intend to apply a materialist reading to these texts as well as to specifics surrounding the production of the set and cinematographic choices outlined in interviews with the director, director of photography (DP) and art director. I will discuss how attention to the material reveal critical links between film production, representation of women, and the merchandizing across the two films. By pulling back the curtain, through readings of the films as ecohorror text and by reading between production and narrative, we get a dual sense of horror: one that comes with viewing, and one that comes with seeing in material intensity of production.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27585
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectEcohorroren_US
dc.subjectEcomediaen_US
dc.subjectFeminist Film Theoryen_US
dc.subjectFilm Analysisen_US
dc.subjectProduction Studiesen_US
dc.titleThe Horror in the Making: A Feminist Film Theory and Ecomedia Studies Approach to Hereditary and Midsommar
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of English
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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