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A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming

open access: yesCINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023
Both fear and horror have been extensively explored as universal unpleasant emotions with significant effects on psychological well-being. It is believed that horror is the feeling aroused when watching a horror film, and a sense of suspense and ...
Ferdi Bozkurt   +1 more
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Review of Japanese Horror Films and the Their American Remakes

open access: yesCINEJ Cinema Journal, 2014
Valerie Wee’s monograph on American remakes of Japanese supernatural horror films is a contribution to Routledge’s Advances in Film Studies series and examines a cluster of films made in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Marcus Harmes
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Scenarios of militarization of everyday life in american horror films. Part 2 / Сценарии милитаризации повседневности в американских фильмах ужасов. Часть 2

open access: yesИндустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований, 2023
In the second part of the article, the authors continue to analyze the militaristic practices of Hollywood, which have been comprehensively tested on the extensive visual material of American horror films.
Sergey Malenko / Сергей Анатольевич Маленко   +1 more
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Scenarios of militarization of everyday life in american horror films. Part 1. / Сценарии милитаризации повседневности в американских фильмах ужасов. Часть 1

open access: yesИндустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований, 2023
The widespread militarization of civilizational spaces naturally affected not only official, but also informal social environments. In the context of modern media culture, for the first time in the history of civilization, it is possible to directly ...
Sergey Malenko / Сергей Анатольевич Маленко   +1 more
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From Social Allegory to Political Statement: Academic Reception of American Horror of the 21st Century [PDF]

open access: yesАнтиномии, 2023
For a long time, horror was an entertaining cinema genre. Since the late 1970s, critics and scholars have gradually started to examine it in terms of social and political content, often conveyed allegorically.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby

open access: yesAmerican Studies in Scandinavia, 2023
This article examines Roman Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby (1968) as both a symptom and a manifestation of the cultural and political upheavals of the late 1960s.
Thorsten Carstensen
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The 1930s Horror Adventure Film on Location in Jamaica: ‘Jungle Gods’, ‘Voodoo Drums’ and ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ in the ‘Secret Places of Paradise Island’

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
In this article, I consider the representation of African-Caribbean religions in the early horror adventure film from a postcolonial perspective. I do so by zooming in on Ouanga (1935), Obeah (1935), and Devil’s Daughter (1939), three low-budget horror ...
Emiel Martens
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« Tout n’est pas une question de race » ?Penser l’intersectionnalité : race, genre et classe dans Us

open access: yesMise au Point, 2023
After the highly acclaimed Get Out (2017), a denunciation of white racism and negrophilia, African-American director Jordan Peele seems to suggest during promotion tour that the racial parameter would be less central in his second film, Us (2019 ...
Célia Sauvage
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Envisioning Vengeance

open access: yesOn_Culture, 2023
This essay analyzes the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante, in order to question the representational and affective function of monstrosity in genre cinema, asking, in particular, how it recruits Indigenous epistemology to ...
Marena Fleites Lear
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The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema (translation into Russian)

open access: yesCorpus Mundi, 2021
The popular culture version of the zombie, developed over the latter half of the twentieth century, made only sporadic appearances in South Korean film, which may in part be attributed to the restrictions on the distribution of American and Japanese ...
Sung-Ae Lee
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