Cupcakes and Kalshnicovs- The Feminine Mystique-

Produce the first few paragraphs of an essay discussing female sexuality in films. Female sexulaity in films are shown in many aspects today that makes a female become the centre of attention. This is used in many horror films, where female is shown as guilty and males as the victims shuch as the film Gennifer's Body'. I will be discussing female sexulaity in films and why they are used in this way. In 'Fatal Attraction', a women is shown as a witch. This is to portray how women are guilty in the actions they do. Fatal Attractions shows how female sexuality is used to explain the selfishness and guilty she puts across when threatening the man because of her own desires and fantacies. (as Pauline Kael says when criticising the film). In Gennifer's Body, she attracts men but, gets revenge by killing them during their date. She is shown as a witch who is cold blodded, heartless and selfish person. Therefore women's sexuality is used in this film to show a way of women revenging. Fatal Attractions shows men's deeper fear of feminism: their fear of women, their fear of women's emotions, of women's hanging onto them, she is a monster in a monster flick. This is all described by the film critic Pauline Kael. The adjectives she uses to describe the women followed by the preposition 'of', portrays who the fear. Metaphor 'she is a monster' is used to make readers think she is a monster. Female sexulaity in films, as seen by Kael is used in a very negative way. By exploring these two films, I think that female sexulaity in films are shown as negative, whereas female sexulaity in many other films is hsown in opposite way (positive).