Date of Award
Spring 4-6-2017
Document Type
Distinction Paper
Degree Name
English Literary Studies-BA
Department
English
Advisor
Dr. Karen Steigman
First Committee Member
Dr. Patricia Frick
Second Committee Member
Dr. Jonathan DeCoster
Keywords
Film Studies, Film Analysis, Spectatorship, Gone Girl
Subject Categories
Film and Media Studies
Abstract
This essay evaluates and analyses the tropes and conventions of classical narrative cinema, particularly its tropes and conventions concerning women and the female character. I incorporate film studies spectatorship and apparatus theories in order to assess the impact of these tropes and conventions on the female spectator, and use Gone Girl as a base point for working through these ideological effects, as well as deconstructing how they work inside the structure of narrative film itself. I was inspired by the way that film moves me to investigate spectatorship for my final paper, and feminist film theory drove me to seek out a film such as Gone Girl that might explore what it means to consider the history of women in classical narrative film.
Recommended Citation
Greitzer, Emily, "The Double Work of the Female Spectator" (2017). Undergraduate Distinction Papers. 47.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stu_dist/47