What is the relationships between the film’s surprise ending and Wolf’s “The Making of A Slut”—or, the punishing of “bad girls”

The exam will cover the following texts (visual and written):
Lecture Notes numbers 5-7
Misery (posted
chapters AND film)
Introduction To Film Studies (Genre, Gender, and Film)—posted chapters
The Wisdom of Ever AND All About
Eve
And Then There Were None AND Identity
“The Making Of A Slut”

Misery (film and
posted novel chapters): The upsetting
of gender norms—Annie Wilkes as a non-traditional, empowered villain; Paul
Sheldon (male) as helpless victim; Connections between Misery Chastain and
Annie Wilkes
Introduction To Film Studies (Genre, Gender, and Film)—posted
chapters: representations of women of women in the Hollywood film industry:
patterns, generalizations, and over-simplifications of who women are and why
they (these images) sell to the viewing audience
The Wisdom of Ever AND All About Eve: drastic distinctions between the film and the play; stereotyping of
catty/jealous women at odds with each other; duplicity; violence against women;
amping up of the love story between Margot and Bill—how it enforces a
stereotype about male-female relationships; stereotyping of female identity and
what women want out of life
And Then There Were None AND Identity: judge, jury, executioner; film’s dramatic departure from the novel;
What is the relationships between the film’s surprise ending and Wolf’s “The Making of A
Slut”—or, the punishing of “bad girls”
“The Making Of A Slut”: how and
why things become very complicated for young girls as they
mature—especially when you begin to factor in things like identity,
sexuality, politics, economic power, poverty, and (C)lass; representations
of these ideas as they apply to assigned readings and films

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