Girls to the final point! genealogies of women bodies in horror movies (1974-1984)
This article is located in the Foucaultian Discursive Studies scope and intend to analyze a specific kind of character that materializes in slasher horror movies: the final girl. This analysis happens under the concept of genealogy for Michel Foucault. The corpus’ analysis follows as a me- thodology...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Discursividades (João Pessoa) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revista.uepb.edu.br:article/861 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REDISC/article/view/861 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Corpo Discurso Genealogia Filme de horror Body Discourse Genealogy Horror movie |
| Sumario: | This article is located in the Foucaultian Discursive Studies scope and intend to analyze a specific kind of character that materializes in slasher horror movies: the final girl. This analysis happens under the concept of genealogy for Michel Foucault. The corpus’ analysis follows as a me- thodology, the making of series and their comparison, aiming to identify the regularities in which the characters converge or diverge. The following text culminates on the confirmation of an ‘internal corporal genealogy’ of the final girls, which is set as a genealogy that is respective to each charac- ter’s body inside its own movie, and in relation with other ones. |
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