Young sinners: guilt, punishment and Christian morality in slasher films

Authors

  • Giancarlo Backes Couto Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.
  • André Conti Silva Universidade Feevale

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2019.212.06

Abstract

This article discusses Christian morality in slasher films and sets out with the assumption that this type of morality manifests itself underlyingly in each narrative through the subjects of guilt and punishment. The discussion is based on the critical work of Nietzsche and Bataille, outlining a brief history of the influence of Christian morality in artworks that involve nudity and eroticism. The analysis of the objects – namely, the movies Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978); Friday the 13th (Sean Cunningham, 1982) and A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) – employs the frame methodology developed by Kilpp (2003) and allow the exemplification of the relationship between the the discoveries of juvenile sexuality and its subsequent doom by the killer characters on the movies.

Keywords: Slasher films. Guilt. Morality. Sex. Nudity.

Author Biographies

Giancarlo Backes Couto, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.

Mestrando em Comunicação Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, na linha de pesquisa Cultura e Tecnologias das imagens e dos imaginários, com bolsa CAPES/PROSUC. Graduado em Jornalismo pela Universidade Feevale (2016). Estudante de Filosofia (Licenciatura), pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas - UFPEL.

André Conti Silva, Universidade Feevale

Doutor em Design pela UFRGS; Mestre em Design pela Unisinos; Graduado em Publicidade e Propaganda e especialista em Produção de Cinema e Televisão. Docente na Universidade Feevale.

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Published

2019-07-23

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2019): May/August

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