This is the surviving girl from the legendary slasher film Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis. She is shown to be sexually retentive. She isn’t made to look sexy or desirable in any way. She is the ‘innocent virgin’. Note how in almost all the slasher films the surviving girl is just about the only girl to have NOT had sex. Halloween is one of the few films that developed this convention
This is an ideal example of the girl not sexually active is the girl who survives. This character is the surviving girl of scream. In one scene of the movie her boyfriend tries have sex with her she resists multiple times saying its not the right time .
From this we can gather that these films are trying to develop an ideology of literally: ‘teenage girls don’t have sex, your virginity is your life in this period of your lifetime’. The film is trying base an ideology in our minds so we can make these our own.
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