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Feminism in Horror: A Semiotic Analysis of Crimson Peak
Williams, Elian
Williams, Elian
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Horror media is notorious for its often poor portrayals of women; from helpless victims, to overly stereotypically masculine heroines, to everything in between. Crimson Peak (2015) is a non-traditional horror film, as its director Guillermo del Toro states that it is not in fact horror but a gothic romance. However, the film exhibits an abundance of tropes present in the horror genre, enough where it is not remiss to claim horror as a secondary genre. As such, through semiotic analysis and an understanding of gothic romance and slasher films, this paper intends to determine if Crimson Peak also contains the horror genre's negative tropes surrounding women, pertaining specifically to the two primary female characters of the film.
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