ABSTRACT Richard Bates’s film Excision (2012) uses blood as a metaphor to interrogate how cultural constructions of femininity affect the development of adolescent girls. Contrary to other horror films, which frequently depict adolescent girls as examples of the ‘monstrous-feminine’, this film about a girl who decides to perform a lung transplant on her sister explores the horrors caused by restricting conceptualisations of feminine bodies and identities. The film’s focus on blood interrogates problematic ideological connotations between menstruation and sexual promiscuity, and questions the veracity of supposedly realistic representations of the female body in contemporary advertising. Its protagonist’s adaptation of the ‘mad scientist’ persona gradually turns her into a character resembling Frankenstein, whose monstrosity highlights her inability to either conform to or escape from femininity as a cultural construct. Teen horror, the film suggests, is not caused by blood and bodily matter, but by extra-textual stereotypes and gender inequality.

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不是您的平均青少年恐怖：理查德·贝茨的《割礼》中的血液和女性青春期（2012）

摘要理查德·贝茨（Richard Bates）的电影《 Excision（2012）》以血液为隐喻，审视女性气质的文化建构如何影响青春期女孩的成长。与其他恐怖电影不同，该电影经常将青春期女孩描述为“可怕女性”的例子，这部电影讲述了一个女孩决定对她的妹妹进行肺移植的故事，探讨了由于限制女性身体和身份概念而引起的恐怖。这部电影的重点是血液，询问了月经与性滥交之间存在问题的意识形态内涵，并质疑了当代广告中所谓的现实女性形象的真实性。它的主人公对“疯狂科学家”角色的改编逐渐将她变成了类似于科学怪人的角色，她的怪异凸显了她无法遵循或摆脱女性化的文化底蕴。这部电影暗示，青少年的恐怖并非由血液和身体物质引起，而是由文字外的刻板印象和性别不平等引起的。