Comparing Pinedo's 'Women And The Pleasure Of Viewing'
LITERATURE REVIEW #1 - Pinedo’s Introduction & Chapter 2: “The Pleasure of Seeing/Not-Seeing the Spectacle of the Wet Death” (1997)
MLA Citation: Pinedo, Isabel Cristina. Introduction. "Chapter 2: “The Pleasure of Seeing/Not-Seeing the Spectacle of the Wet Death”." Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1997. N. pag. Print.
Reading Summary: Pinedo’s work exemplifies the effects on behavior and feelings of a person through horror films. The desire to watch films of gore and murder are also explained through comparisons of horror films to pornography. The audience of a horror film becomes intrigued with the effects of not seeing during horror films, allowing their …show more content…
Postmodern horror blurs the putative boundary between good and evil, normal and abnormal, and the outcome of the struggle is at best ambiguous.” (Pinedo, 5)
“The refusal to fully see is an act of control exercised by audience members who distance themselves during intense moments of anxiety to keep fear in check when it threatens to overwhelm them. Conversely, the blocked vision produced by the film heightens the intensity of the horror by refusing to show the terrifying spectacle.” (Pinedo, 54)
“Porn and horror are obsessed with the transgression of bodily boundaries. Both are concerned with the devouring orifice. But whereas pornography is concerned with the phallic penetration and secretions of sexually coded orifices like the mouth (gaping in ecstasy or pain), vagina, and anus, horror is more concerned with the creation of openings where there were none before.” (Pinedo, 61)
“The wet death is intended to remain in the realm of fantasy. This is why the snuff film, marked as both a pornographic vehicle or orgasm, and a “real” document of murder poses such a profound threat. It is arguably a filmic incitement to commit murder.” (Pinedo,
MLA Citation: Pinedo, Isabel Cristina. Introduction. "Chapter 2: “The Pleasure of Seeing/Not-Seeing the Spectacle of the Wet Death”." Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1997. N. pag. Print.
Reading Summary: Pinedo’s work exemplifies the effects on behavior and feelings of a person through horror films. The desire to watch films of gore and murder are also explained through comparisons of horror films to pornography. The audience of a horror film becomes intrigued with the effects of not seeing during horror films, allowing their …show more content…
Postmodern horror blurs the putative boundary between good and evil, normal and abnormal, and the outcome of the struggle is at best ambiguous.” (Pinedo, 5)
“The refusal to fully see is an act of control exercised by audience members who distance themselves during intense moments of anxiety to keep fear in check when it threatens to overwhelm them. Conversely, the blocked vision produced by the film heightens the intensity of the horror by refusing to show the terrifying spectacle.” (Pinedo, 54)
“Porn and horror are obsessed with the transgression of bodily boundaries. Both are concerned with the devouring orifice. But whereas pornography is concerned with the phallic penetration and secretions of sexually coded orifices like the mouth (gaping in ecstasy or pain), vagina, and anus, horror is more concerned with the creation of openings where there were none before.” (Pinedo, 61)
“The wet death is intended to remain in the realm of fantasy. This is why the snuff film, marked as both a pornographic vehicle or orgasm, and a “real” document of murder poses such a profound threat. It is arguably a filmic incitement to commit murder.” (Pinedo,