CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Baca, Bojan |
|---|---|
| Title | MALICE IN WONDERLAND: THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUS AND THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS IN AMERICAN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970S |
| Summary | After the “linguistic turn”, the issue of representation became one of the central problems of social sciences. This paradigm shift enabled film to constitue itself as a discourse. Consequently, film was extensively utilized as an interpretative framework. In addition to this, I argue that film possesses one more dimesion that is relevant for sociology and anthropology: ability to operate as a theoretical model. And I find that the most suitable films for fulfilling this function are the ones that belong to the horror genre of the 1970s. Drawing primarily on theories of Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Derrida and Frederic Jameson, I argue that only this genre can provide examples which can illustrate the universality of antagonisms in social reality. Furthermore, once constituted as a theoretical model, the horror film can uncover “unconscious” ideology behind everyday life practice. |
| Supervisor | Jean-Louis Fabiani |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/baca_bojan.pdf |
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