Keywords: affect, abjection, horror studies, film studies, body genres 1. Using three key filmic texts (Nicholas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother, Richard Bates Jr.’s Excision, and Lucky McKee’s May), this paper approaches the concepts of abjection and the monstrous feminine as they converge at the feminine grotesque in order for the female mutilator to actualize her identity. In this paper, the character archetype of the female mutilator is proposed as a foil to the final girl trope, one who takes back her power through explicit gore and violence. Body horror’s usage of female protagonists creates a dichotomous space of both feminism and anti-feminism, agency and oppression. Not consider this content professional or citable.This paper discusses affect and body horror through the lens of abjection, specifically how we react to viscera and extremes of the body. Professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors. Providing this content as a courtesy until we can offer a Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing. "Greek Gifts: Vision and Revision in Two Versions of Night of the Living Dead". Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth. "A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist Teachings in George A. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007. In: Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)".
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