Den monstruösa kvinnokroppen: En feministisk studie av filmen Carrie (1976) och den nyproducerade versionen från 2013

Abstract

This essay analyses Brian De Palma and Kimberly Pierce’s adaption of Stephen King’s Carrie. The aim is to examine how the adolescent bleeding female body is visually encoded in these two different adaptions of the story because of the visual taboo that characterizes the female body and menstruation in films and in our society. Through feminist film theory this essay search to answer the question and to reveal the patriarchal power structures that characterizes our society. The result shows that the main character Carrie is portrayed as monstrous and unclean because of her menstruation and her female body. This in turn helps to maintain old patterns and patriarchal structures such as the belief that the female body and menstruation is secondary to the male body and the belief that the female body is dangerous and unclean.