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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1978)
SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE FOR A NoES2: FREDDY’S REVENGE (2018)
“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
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Love, Simon (Berlanti 2018)
Martyrs (2008)
MENTIONED WITHOUT SPOILERS
The Nightshifter (2018)
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TOPIC INDEX – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Sholder 1985)
0:00 – Intro
6:00 – Compare to Summer of ’84 (2018)
6:10 – Our Sociological Images blog posts
Horror films are our collective nightmares
Collective Nightmares Movie Analysis
6:58 – Martyrs(!)
7:00 – Beginning the transgression for progression or transgression for re-inscription discussion. This continues through our upcoming episodes of Halloween 2018 as well as Scream 1996.
11:15 – Using Freddy to stigmatize homosexuality and/or homoeroticism
15:15 – Ending with a return to heterosexuality?
16:43 – Historical context of slasher films relative to re-establishing normalcy narratives
21:55 – Watching the film with a LGBTQI+ crowd
28:57 – Academic work on marginalized spectatorship
Crimp* – camp as reclaiming viewing (Note I haven’t found an article by this author that address this specifically. I am looking for a good reference and will let you know what I find in future episodes).
Mulvey – reclaiming the male gaze of cinema for women
hooks – black queer women reclaiming joy in viewing through oppositional gaze
31:10 – Comparison of reclaiming queer viewing to hooks’ oppositional gaze
33:05 – The odd creation of the film and Laura explains how horror films are our collective nightmares
34:58 – Foucault’s conditions of possibility (apparently originally from Kant).
35:45 – Queer subtext
39:40 – BDSM imagery in this film specifically and horror generally
43:37 – MacKinnon and Dworkin, argument that pornography is inherently violent against women
44:26 – Rubin’s domino theory of sexual peril
45:14 – BDSM club scene
49:10 – Sexism in NoES2
53:11 – Young women vs men source of status and identity
55:21 – Families
1:00:50 – A disliked film
1:02:50 – Scream Queen (2018)
1:04:47 – Queer horror films
1:06:38 – Ginger Snaps (2000)
1:07:25 – Martyrs (2008)
1:08:26 – Nostalgia here compared to Summer of 84 (2018)
1:09:44 – Quinn “The Power and Meaning of “Girl Watching”” (2002)
1:15:46 – Reading the homoeroticism
1:16:48 – Laying back on the couch
1:17:24 – Laura sums it up
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