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women back in their place and restoring order within the prevalently patriarchal
American society, with film providing a perfect platform for gender biased views to be
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genre, in his 1987 essay on modern American horror film titled Returning the Lookways to
put women back in their place and restoring order within the prevalently patriarchal
American society, with film providing a perfect platform for gender biased views to be
forced upon audiences. In support of this view, Robin Wood a critic of the genre, in
his 1987 essay on modern American horror film titled Returning the Look: Eyes of a
Stranger renames slasher films into violence against women films stating that they
have generally been explained as a hysterical response to 60s and 70s feminism where the
male spectator enjoys a sadistic revenge on women who have begun to refuse to slot
neatly and obligingly into his patriarchally predetermined view of the way things should
naturally be (196). Wood bases his theory on the factual existence of gender differences
in influenceability within society and points out the greater impact of male influence
in the cinematic world that has led to denying women their rights and men projecting
their own innate, repressed femininity on to women in order to disown it as inferior
(74). Nevertheless, there are also those who recognize hints of positivity within the
slasher narrative that are embodied by the character of the Final Girl. Carol Clover
addresses the issue in her 1992 book titled Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the
Modern Horror Film by pointing out that, in the end, the female protagonist is always
the one to survive yet many scholars, alongside Clover, also acknowledge the definite
masculinity of the Final Girl that will be discussed later on in this paper. Still,
there are further key elements constituting the typical slasher narrative format that
undoubtedly support the idea of female oppression in slasher subgenre. The first key
element being prolonged, torturous deaths of female victims opposed to swift murders of
the male victims. One simply cannot disavow and un-see the lingering of the camera as it
focuses on the ever so elaborate slaughters of helpless women in slasher films. The
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