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Tag: tropes

Essay film

Horror and Gender: What is it about the treatment of women?

By storgy on October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

Horror is a gender stereotyped industry. That’s a fact, and there is plenty of evidence to suggest so (years upon years to be precise). But, before I bash horror, it should be said too, for parity, that so is nearly every other genre. You can’t escape stereotypes, because they create narratives from which writers build

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