The Horror in the Making: A Feminist Film Theory and Ecomedia Studies Approach to Hereditary and Midsommar
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2022-10-04
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University of Oregon
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Ari 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.
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Ecohorror, Ecomedia, Feminist Film Theory, Film Analysis, Production Studies