Unveiling Film Bodies: How Genre, Gender & Excess Shape Cinema 🎬

This video explains Linda Williams's essay Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, in which she claims that melodrama, horror, and pornography can be understood as "body genres" that elicit a strong bodily response from viewers.

The video spends a good deal of time clarifying Williams's use of the term "excess," which is central to the essay's argument.