| Peer-Reviewed

The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies

Received: 8 April 2019     Accepted: 25 April 2019     Published: 20 May 2019
Views:       Downloads:
Abstract

Horror can be defined as an intense and painful fear, dread or dismay. It evokes and elicits such kind of emotions in the reader, when rendered in television or cinema. It is a literary genre, which is intended to terrify its readers by calling to mind the feelings of terror and horror. Men are depicted as the slaughterers and victimize women in all kinds of ways. Women in general have a crucial part in most of the horror movies and all the time depicted as the main character in the movie for certain important reasons. The aim of this research is to explore the role of women in the conjuring by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes and The Scream by Kevin Williamson. The study is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one deals with a historical background about the horror genre in movies while section two intends to look at the role of women in the horror movies by analyzing the conjuring and the scream. The study ends up with conclusions which sum up the main findings of the research.

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 5, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13
Page(s) 14-17
Creative Commons

This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

Copyright

Copyright © The Author(s), 2019. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Ghost Story, Women, Horror, Killer, Victims, Conjuring, Scream

References
[1] Bigler, R. S., & Liben, L. S. (1992). Cognitive Mechanisms in Children's Gender Stereotyping: Theoretical and Educational Implications of a Cognitive-Based Intervention. Child Development, 63(6), 1351-1363.
[2] Blakerley, Kiri. Women. in Horror Films, 2010.
[3] Bleakley, A., Jamieson, P., & Romer, D. (2012). Trends of Sexual and Violent Content by Gender in Top-Grossing U.S. Films, 1950–2006. The Journal of Adolescent Health, 51(1), 73-79.
[4] Dir. James Wan. Perf. Vera Farmiga and. Patrick Wilson., The Conjuring. New Line. Cinema, 2013. Film.
[5] Hutchings‏, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema, 2017. P 43. Retrieved from https://books.google.iq/books?isbn=1538102447
[6] Keisner, J. (2008). Do You Want to Watch? A Study of the Visual Rhetoric of the Postmodern Horror Film. Women's Studies 37(4) 411-427.
[7] Kelsey Knoploh, Women in the conjuring. Mar 2, 2018. https://medium.com/comm430gu/women-in-the-conjuring-d7c338994e9b
[8] Nolan, J., & Ryan, G. (2000). Fear and loathing at the cineplex: Gender differences in descriptions and perceptions of slasher films. Sex Roles, 42.1(2), 39-56.
[9] Linz, D., & Donnerstein, E. (1994). Sex and violence in slasher films: A re-interpretation. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 38, 243–247.
[10] Lizarde, R. (2010) "Re-Imagining" Hegemony and Misogyny in the Contemporary Slasher Remake. Journal of Popular Film and Television 38(3) 113-121.
[11] Olson, Christopher J. and D. Reinhard, ‏CarrieLynn. Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema, ‏ 2016, p. 162.
[12] Sheppard, Robert. Literary Blog & World Literature Forum, Posted on March 3, 2014.
[13] Smith, S., Pieper, K., Granados, A., & Choueiti, M. (2010). Assessing Gender-Related Portrayals in Top-Grossing G-Rated Films. Sex Roles, 62(11-12), 774-786.
[14] Weinstein, B. (Producer), & Craven, W. (Director). (1997). Scream [Motion picture]. USA: Dimension Home Video.
[15] Welsh, A. (2010). On the perils of living dangerously in the slasher horror film: gender differences in the association between sexual activity and survival. Sex Roles, 25(1/2), 197-213.
[16] http://www.deliberatemagazine.com/brief-history-horror-films/
Cite This Article
  • APA Style

    Manaar Kamil Sa'eed, Haider Saad Yahya Jubran. (2019). The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies. Communication and Linguistics Studies, 5(1), 14-17. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13

    Copy | Download

    ACS Style

    Manaar Kamil Sa'eed; Haider Saad Yahya Jubran. The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies. Commun. Linguist. Stud. 2019, 5(1), 14-17. doi: 10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13

    Copy | Download

    AMA Style

    Manaar Kamil Sa'eed, Haider Saad Yahya Jubran. The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies. Commun Linguist Stud. 2019;5(1):14-17. doi: 10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13

    Copy | Download

  • @article{10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13,
      author = {Manaar Kamil Sa'eed and Haider Saad Yahya Jubran},
      title = {The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies},
      journal = {Communication and Linguistics Studies},
      volume = {5},
      number = {1},
      pages = {14-17},
      doi = {10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13},
      eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.cls.20190501.13},
      abstract = {Horror can be defined as an intense and painful fear, dread or dismay. It evokes and elicits such kind of emotions in the reader, when rendered in television or cinema. It is a literary genre, which is intended to terrify its readers by calling to mind the feelings of terror and horror. Men are depicted as the slaughterers and victimize women in all kinds of ways. Women in general have a crucial part in most of the horror movies and all the time depicted as the main character in the movie for certain important reasons. The aim of this research is to explore the role of women in the conjuring by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes and The Scream by Kevin Williamson. The study is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one deals with a historical background about the horror genre in movies while section two intends to look at the role of women in the horror movies by analyzing the conjuring and the scream. The study ends up with conclusions which sum up the main findings of the research.},
     year = {2019}
    }
    

    Copy | Download

  • TY  - JOUR
    T1  - The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies
    AU  - Manaar Kamil Sa'eed
    AU  - Haider Saad Yahya Jubran
    Y1  - 2019/05/20
    PY  - 2019
    N1  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13
    DO  - 10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13
    T2  - Communication and Linguistics Studies
    JF  - Communication and Linguistics Studies
    JO  - Communication and Linguistics Studies
    SP  - 14
    EP  - 17
    PB  - Science Publishing Group
    SN  - 2380-2529
    UR  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.cls.20190501.13
    AB  - Horror can be defined as an intense and painful fear, dread or dismay. It evokes and elicits such kind of emotions in the reader, when rendered in television or cinema. It is a literary genre, which is intended to terrify its readers by calling to mind the feelings of terror and horror. Men are depicted as the slaughterers and victimize women in all kinds of ways. Women in general have a crucial part in most of the horror movies and all the time depicted as the main character in the movie for certain important reasons. The aim of this research is to explore the role of women in the conjuring by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes and The Scream by Kevin Williamson. The study is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one deals with a historical background about the horror genre in movies while section two intends to look at the role of women in the horror movies by analyzing the conjuring and the scream. The study ends up with conclusions which sum up the main findings of the research.
    VL  - 5
    IS  - 1
    ER  - 

    Copy | Download

Author Information
  • English Department, College of Arts, Imam Ja'afar Al, Sadiq University, Baghdad, Iraq

  • English Department, College of Arts, Imam Ja'afar Al, Sadiq University, Baghdad, Iraq

  • Sections