Remade in Our Image: Gender, Melodrama, and Conservatism in Post-9/11 Slasher Remakes

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dc.contributor.advisorKarlyn, Kathleenen_US
dc.contributor.authorHayt, Anthonyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-17T19:44:50Z
dc.date.available2014-06-17T19:44:50Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-17
dc.description.abstractThis project details the ways in which the classic slasher films of the 1970s, and their post-9/11 remakes, are representative of the individual and complex world views out of which each set of films were borne. The remakes manipulate gender roles including those of the Final Girl and the mother; genre conventions, including increases in domestic melodrama and pathos; production models, including the use of star actors, directors, and producers; sexuality and presentation of the sexualized female body; and race, especially in fine differences between white and non-white characters. In doing so, the post-9/11 films reveal a conservative cultural climate that strives to show recovery of the nuclear family unit after trauma, unlike the originals which are more nihilistic in tone and portray families as either absent or deeply flawed and unrecoverable.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/17925
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectHorror filmen_US
dc.subjectMelodramaen_US
dc.subjectMotherhooden_US
dc.subjectRemakesen_US
dc.subjectSlashersen_US
dc.titleRemade in Our Image: Gender, Melodrama, and Conservatism in Post-9/11 Slasher Remakesen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Englishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en_US

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