What's Natural About Killing? Gender, copycat violence and Natural Born Killers
2001; Routledge; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09589230120086511
ISSN1465-3869
Autores Tópico(s)Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
ResumoWith a lawsuit implicating Natural Born Killers in real-world violence still pending, the representation of violence in Oliver Stone's 1994 film remains a controversial issue. This article examines the gendering of violence - both in the film itself and in three of the most infamous 'copycat' cases - and demonstrates that the apparently gender-neutral term 'natural born killers' is used to disguise the normalisation of male violence on- and off-screen. While male violence is normalised, it is argued that representations of female violence emphasise transformation and undercut women's violent subjectivity through a re-positioning of women as erotic objects.
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