CRITICAL INVESTIGATION ESSAY PLAN
KEY:
• QUOTES
• THEORY
• HISTORICAL
• ECONOMIC
• SOCIAL
• POLITICAL
• MIGRAIN
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Why do audience continue watching horror movies such as insidious and paranormal activity, and what are the specific audience pleasures of horror movies?
INTRODUCTION:
HORROR is a prevalent genre in Hollywood which is why it’s a significant topic to consider and study …
“The pleasure comes from the relief that follows. It provides a cathartic effect, offering you emotional release and escape from the real world of bills and mortgages and the economy and relationships.”
John Edward Campbell
My primary texts are INSIDIOUS and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY…
SECTION 1: pleasures of horror movies
In this paragraph I will be talking about the pleasures of horror movies from what I have found out in my research…
‘It is suggested that the former, active and particularistic conception is to be preferred and that this necessitates a renewed attempt to grasp the diversity of what is, after all, a heterogeneous audience capable of taking diverse pleasures from their favored genre
Section 2: gender
GENDER
In this paragraph I will talk about the gender related topics with horror
MALE: “Teenage boys enjoyed a horror film significantly more when the female companion... expressed fright,
FEMALE: whereas teenage girls enjoyed the film more when the male companion... showed a sense of mastery and control,”
Section 3: statistics.
In this paragraph I will talk about the statistics to back up my points on gender
Barclay (1961) presents the results of a survey of 2,526 boys and 2,794 girls conducted by the Scottish Educational Film Association.
49 per cent of fourteen-year-old boys and 37 per cent of girls of the same age chose horror as one of the four film types they liked best
41 per cent of fifteenyear-old boys and 56 per cent of girls of the same age chose horror).
Girls increasingly professed a dislike for the genre as they matured (of sixteenyear-olds, the number of boys liking horror remains steady at '10 per cent, for girls the figure dropped to 25 per cent).
By the age of eighteen, these figures have fallen to
• 29 per cent of boys
• 15 per cent of girls who liked horror films;
• 30 per cent of boys
• 64 per cent of girls most disliked genres
Section 4: criticisms
In this paragraph I will talk about why horror may not be a popular gender and how it has failed to pleasure audiences recently
BAD REVIEWS FROM MY TEXTS SUCH AS INSIDIOUS.
Section 5: historical context
In this paragraph I will talk about the historical context of horror movies
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‘During times of economic deprivation, as between 1931-1933, horror films like Dracula, King Kong, and The Mummy were highly popular; ditto for the late 1960s to the 1980s, the era of Halloween, Night of the Living Dead, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’
Section 6: HISTORICAL TEXT:
In this paragraph I will be taking about my historical text which will be the movie scream
I will be analysing the text and comparing it to my normal text
Section 7: primary texts INSIDIOUS
In this Paragraph I will be talking about my primary text insidious and talking about the success of the movie as well as the background information
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Section 8: Migrain and theories of INSIDIOUS
In this paragraph I will be talking about the analysis I done for insidious
Analysis on video as well as the movie
Section 9: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
In this Paragraph I will be talking about my primary text insidious and talking about the success of the movie as well as the background information
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Section 10: Migrain and theories of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
In this paragraph I will be talking about the analysis I done for paranormal activity
Analysis on video as well as the movie
CONCLUSION
In this paragraph I will write a distinct conclusion about it the overall pleasures of horror movies I will also include a quote I gained from the BFI Library
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