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What Will Happen to Her Next?

FRS 113

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This freshman seminar concerns itself with the laws by which fictional female lives are told: narratives by which we anticipate as well as judge--vigilant observers that we are--what is going to happen to her next. A fundamental claim of this course is that dramatic suspense problematically takes momentum from gendered laws and cues: when we see a lightly-clad woman, drenched in blood, stumbling from a highway stop we are conditioned to assume that she has been raped. But what happens when a female director 'disappoints' our narrative expectation because the presumed female victim turns out in fact to have cannibalized a truck driver?
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Section S01