![]() ![]() The essay concludes with some points for further discussion. By doing so I hope to show that human victims are often represented through animal terms (and can thus be read as symbolic for the status of animals in society) and that the storyworld of these films is one of an extremist “non-speciesist” disposition. This part will be my experiment to perform what I refer to as a “vegetarian analysis” of filmic examples by referring both to the ethical background of the animal rights movement and the visual representations used to portray the relationship between the killer and his or her victims. The third part will analyze selected films from the horror genre in light of four different themes, or motifs, that I believe to resurface again and again in horror cinema. ![]() His story provides a paradigm example of speciesism in action and of the dystopian world where humans are hunted and killed precisely in the same manner as animals. The second part constitutes a retelling of the story of the now legendary serial killer Ed Gein, whose work inspired at least three generations of horror cinema. I will review the concept of “speciesism” and recite a brief history of animal rights and some of the movement’s main arguments. The first one discusses my theoretical background in animal rights theory and ethical philosophy. The essay is divided into three main parts. ![]()
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