Depictions of Gender, Homes and Families in the TV Version of The Exorcist
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television
ISBN: 978-1-78769-104-9, eISBN: 978-1-78769-103-2
Publication date: 13 March 2019
Abstract
The third approach of this chapter will be to compare gender representations in the television series and the film The Exorcist (1973). In theory, the intervening 44 years could have seen gains for women and feminism, but 2017 has seen women’s rights eroded yet again. The film was made at the height of the women’s liberation movement and second-wave feminism, and at the start of the era of ‘video nasties’ and explicitly gory slasher and cannibal films, so I will use the historical context to frame a discussion about the two different versions.
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Citation
Holland, S. (2019), "Depictions of Gender, Homes and Families in the TV Version of
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2019, Samantha Holland