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Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Codes And Conventions

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Alexandra Stefanek Jenna Sule POPC 1600 Finale paper April 16, 2023 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a newer adaptation of the older show Sabrina the Teenage Witch with a bit of a scarier spin to it. Women are more likely to watch Chilling Adventures of Sabrina while men are more likely to watch slasher films. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina presents young women with power in many different ways while slasher films present women as helpless and meek. The sub-genre matters when looking at horror films because the way characters are presented is shown differently throughout different genres of horror. In this paper, I will argue that the TV show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina represents women with more power especially young women …show more content…

For example, the conventions in witch films witches are usually feared by everyone including men who are shown to have great power as priests or warlocks. Conventions represented in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are that they are Devil worshipers, the young female ascends to a greater power, and the people who were once their family and friends now fear them because of what they are. These are only some of the conventions represented in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. An example seen within the show is a scene where Sabrina ascends to a greater power and is able to bring people back from the dead without needing to sacrifice anything to Lucifer. When Sabrina’s friends and family either see or hear what happened everyone in a way starts to isolate themselves from her. Slasher films also have many conventions like “Staples of drive-ins and exploitation houses...” (Clover) Some other conventions would be “sexually attractive young women being stalked by a knife-wielding, virtually indestructible, psychotic serial killer; and scenes of unexpected and shocking violence and brutality.” (Wee) Without these conventions neither slasher nor witch horror would be a classic story for the

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