help with Horror paper

[heretic]

Hi I dont know if this will be allowed up but for my college media paper iam doing about horror films and could do with some help I know you guys must know some of this stuff any help would be very much appreciated.

I need more detail about context what was happening at the time in society of these films.

the impact they had on audiances and how they where different from what went before them

the films are

Nosferatu
Friday the 13th
Scream
Ringu
Ring
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween


Any help on any of these tiltes would be great.
thanks in adavance

[Psychocandy]

I'll try to come up with something later. Right now though, I recommend that you check out the documentary "The American Nightmare". It's a brilliant documentary that covers the growth of the horror genre during the seventies and how it was affected by changes in society and vice versa. Very interesting stuff. It's available on the second disc of the UK Anchor Bay release of The Hills Have Eyes. I don't know whether it's on the US release.

[redwhisper13]

First, very interesting topic.

Second, I would love to help but sadly my advice can only extend toward the societal shift from the movie, Scream.

This movie gave more fuel to the aggressive stimulation theory (Theory that people are inspired to violence from media depictions), and threw the society into a temporary uproar, thinking that a new cry from a younger generation of criminals would be, "Horror movies made me do it."

Although an entertaining film to teens and young adults, the plot of Scream had parents wondering if such a blantant defense for psychosis would mentally damage the next generation.

Now, I'm not saying that all of this came about from one movie, but an increasing number of people believe that media violence begets real-life violence. One of the most conclusive studies toward that point, is the 1960 Bobo doll studies of Albert Bandura.
What was not clearly pointed out though, were certain variables in his studies that were not more carefully studied.

However, there was no sudden trend of copycat killers sparked by the movie, and it was just labeled as slasher fiction.

I think your paper, or whatever, might be easier to write though, it you focused on the aggressive stimulation theory, the catalytic theory, or maybe even the desensitizing theory.

Hope I helped. :)

[heretic]

thanks for everyones help so far :)

I study psychology and am aware of Bandura's study but had not put the two together but now I will, thanks again.