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Spring Breakers was not seen as a work of ‘art’ because of its responses to female sexuality that was deemed as ‘trashy’. As highlighted by Gerbner (1972, p. 44 as cited in Carter, 2012, p. 366). “[…] absence means symbolic annihilation”. Spring Breakers reversed what was seen as taboo in the media, four young women expressing their sexuality, acting immoral, violent and bad. With most films focusing on the male narrative, this was different, and so responses to Spring Breakers was met with disdain for example,
And there was just too much nudity and too much of the same old rubbish I’m always seeing in every movie […] look at us we’re getting drunk, we’re getting high, we’re walking around naked […] Quite sad to think how many teenagers are going to watch movies like his and think, ‘This is how we HAVE to behave’, (Princess_Ashmi, 2013).
Another user wrote,
MOVIE MADE BY IDIOTS, WITH IDIOTS & FOR INNOCENT MINDS TO DESTROY. EVERY WHERE SLUTS …show more content…

ANOTHER BRAIN WASHING PROPOGANDA! (Nikon Motion, 2013).
This response and many similar to it predominately focused on the portrayal of female sexuality in Spring Breakers, which alludes to the notion that young females should be passive and restraint in expressing their sexuality. Both users believe that teenagers are going to act immoral because of this ‘brain washing’ movie. In this way, discourses of sexuality catergorise females as whores or virgins, good or bad. Females are demonized for embracing their sexuality but also shamed for repressing it. Through this, women are shown that instead of embracing their sexuality, they are to ‘perform’ it for the pleasure of the man. As Garner (et al. 1998, p. 71 as cited in Bachechi & Hall, 2013, p. 551) says, “While discourses on men’s

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