When the Woman Screams: A podcast project exploring the cultural reasons behind why women scream in horror films.
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When the Woman Screams: A podcast project exploring the cultural reasons behind why women scream in horror films.
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Elizabeth Erwin
Date
2020-08-12
Description
Popular thinking is that women scream in horror films because it is an inherently misogynistic media genre; that women are screaming because they are being terrorized. But this reading fails to account for any complexity of female emotions and experiences. While women do scream because they are afraid, they also scream in anger, grief, or simply to be heard. This public humanities podcast project examines the evolution of the female scream in horror films and explores the cultural underpinnings that potentially explain these shifts.
