CRAFTING POST-FEMINIST WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN/HORROR
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2024-05-01
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26300079
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2-s2.0-85201190027
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Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies
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24
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264
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276
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SCOPUS
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Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies Vol.24 No.2 (2024) , 264-276
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Ott B.E. CRAFTING POST-FEMINIST WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN/HORROR. Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies Vol.24 No.2 (2024) , 264-276. 276. doi:10.69598/hasss.24.2.264468 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/100572
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CRAFTING POST-FEMINIST WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN/HORROR
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The scarcity of creative work that engages the problematic issue of female marginalization in the western/horror hybrid space demonstrates the need to expand her limited framework and develop a new screenwriting approach that privileges the female perspective. Prevailing contemporary western and horror hybrid texts, such as and Bone Tomahawk (2015) adhere to traditional male-centred American myths that re-inform genre codes and conventions supporting patriarchal power. Female-centered western/horror hybrid narratives, such as The Witch (2015), Brimstone (2016), Mohawk (2017), and Prey (2022) move issues of female representation into lesser-explored territory, but, when read through a post-feminist lens, do not fully realize the fruitful craft potential that, as I will argue, genre hybridity and post-feminist screenwriting generates. That said, using Mohawk, as a detailed case study, I will analyze how post-feminism successfully informs the narrative and character construction, to advance female representation in mixed-genre form. In addition, this article proposes and explores a new approach to ‘writing’ strong female characters: one that expands the limits of power beyond the boundaries of the existing western/horror storytelling.