Examples from other genres, such as westerns and horror, will help us to argue how the science fiction genre has helped to progress the now more equal role women play in cinema. ... However Science-fiction cinema was, until the 1970s, increasingly focused on unnatural creatures, such as King Kong and Godzilla, giving rise to a subgenre known as horror or monster films. ... Nor would the young men experience the amount of gender confusion that makes horror an ideal testing laboratory (for them)."" ... Horror provides another way of viewing the male-female dynamic in a cinematic setting. Th...

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In film, the male gaze develops when the audience is put in place of the heterosexual male behind the lens and displays the female as a sexual object for both the characters in the film, as well as the audience watching the film. ... Films today, especially action and horror, push us to look at these women as attractive and sexually appealing; clearly with the male audience in mind. ... This is not apparent specifically in films alone, this is apparent in art, film, music, videos, and especially in advertising. ... Many horror films have a leading female character, which fights and comes out t...

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Introduction It would be impossible to name all the villains, or even the types of villains, which have appeared in Hollywood films since the beginning of silent films. ... Chaplin's imitation of Hitler is a classic of film comedy. ... The Witches of the East and West inspire horror in the The Wizard of Oz" (1940's) and are killed. ... The film originates from true incidents in the 1960's. ... As is frequently the case this splendid film was not popular. ...

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