The University Film Committee will pair with the Women's Week Committee in their discussion of women in horror films with their showing of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Psycho" (1960) from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Art and Journalism Building Room 175.
The film is the first in a three-part series titled Bad Girls and Blood: Gender, Culture, and Slasher Films.
"The Final Girl and the Dead Girl," a multimedia film presentation by Ball State University students Rebecca Parker and Bruce Snyder, will explore the gender dynamics in the slasher film from 7 to 7:45 p.m. Thursday in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building Room 125. The presentation contains violence, nudity, and gore and is not appropriate for children.
Surviving Psycho: A Roundtable on Gender, Culture, and Slasher Films will be a follow-up discussion to Tuesday's showing of "Psycho." A multidisciplinary faculty and student panel consisting of panelists from the history, telecommunications and religious studies departments will discuss the film and its place in 1960s culture, event organizer and assistant professor of English Deborah Mix said.
The discussion will take place from 7:50 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Letterman Building Room 125.
"What's interesting about ‘Psycho' is that it was the first slasher movie," she said. "You see gore going down the drain, something we've had bigger and bigger genres of. The woman's place in this is complicated; they're seen as victims and erotic objects."
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