Martin, Sarah2023-04-272023-04-272023-04-272023-04-27http://hdl.handle.net/10012/19343Something to soften the blow is a visual arts exhibition featuring photography, textile, and video artworks that explore feminist critiques of representation in film, specifically looking at the slasher genre. What began as a casual consumption of horror films bloomed into a binge-watching experience over the last 3 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, which inspired the themes incorporated into this body of work. In referencing select films from the 1970’s to 2020’s, I consider parallels to contemporary culture and how patriarchy and misogyny feature in representations of real and fictional women. This text is split into twelve subtitled chapters that reflect the approach to my artistic practice, choice of materials, and conceptual underpinnings.enMaster Thesis