ABSTRACT

The eco-horror film mother! tells the story of mother, who navigates a tenuous relationship with her husband, Him, while an increasing number of people invade their home. mother! deploys strategic essentialism and identification as ecofeminist rhetorical strategies to show the dual exploitation of women and nature. The character of mother is a strategic essentializing of the Mother Nature archetype, which I call “womanature,” that evokes the interconnectedness of oppression and audience complicity in womanature’s suffering. Additionally, the film enacts “transcorporeal identification” to identify the audience with both mother and her home and to demonstrate how to listen, understand, and acknowledge nonhuman life. mother! warns us of the consequences if we fail to listen to mother (nature) and illustrates how horror films can function as vehicles for environmental rhetoric.

摘要

生态恐怖片的母亲！讲述了一个母亲的故事，母亲与丈夫祂之间建立了微弱的关系，与此同时，越来越多的人入侵了他们的住所。母亲！运用战略本质主义和认同作为生态女性主义的修辞策略，以展示对妇女和自然的双重剥削。母亲的性格是大自然原型的战略本质，我称之为“女性化”，它唤起了女性化苦难的压迫和听众同谋的相互联系。此外，这部电影还制定了“经体识别”，以识别观众与母亲及其家的情况，并演示如何聆听，理解和认可非人类的生活。母亲！ 如果我们不听母亲（自然）的话，会警告我们后果，并说明恐怖电影如何起到环境修辞的作用。