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The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema (translation into Russian)
Corpus 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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“You Can Really Make the Story Your Own”: Taking Back Candyman
Humanities, 2023 This essay offers a comparative analysis of Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman and its 2021 sequel directed by Nia DaCosta. Through an intertextual approach informed by gothic studies, narratology, and critical race theory, the essay shows how DaCosta’s film ...
Marco Petrelli
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« Get him Grandpa » : féminité et blanchité dans Get Out de Jordan Peele (2017)
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2022 This paper examines the way Get Out (2017), Jordan Peele’s directorial debut, considers white femininity through the Rose and Missy Armitage characters.
Hélène Charlery
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The urban soundscape in sci-fi cinema
Urbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda, 2022 This topic of the city has attracted sustained interest in film studies. However, when discussing the soundtrack of contemporary films, the specifics of urban soundscape representation in such genres as horror and science fiction, in which exactly the ...
Alejandro Contreras Koob +1 more
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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POST-APOCALYPTIC SURROGATE IDEOLOGY: BIOPOLITICS OF CYBERSPACE: IN A HOLLYWOOD HORROR MOVIE
Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум, 2021 Relevance. The expansion of scientific and technical inventions into official and everyday environments creates a new subject field for socio-humanitarian reflection.
Andrey G. Nekita +2 more
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The Pure Moment of Murder: The Symbolic Function of Bodily Interactions in Horror Film [PDF]
, 2011 Both the slasher movie and its more recent counterpart the "torture porn" film centralize graphic depictions of violence. This article inspects the nature of these portrayals by examining a motif commonly found in the cinema of homicide, dubbed here the "
Jones, Steve
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Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2016 Hans Weingartner’s Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei, also known by its American title The Edukators, explores the relationship of a young anti-capitalist activist, Jan, with his own friends, the bourgeousie he opposes, and himself. Jan and his friends engage
R. Eric Johnson
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The study of Gotic-literary contents within two novels: "Sane-al-Zalam" and "Negahban [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2023 Introduction The genre of horror stories under the title of Gothic fiction, by combining scary themes and images, creates a style of story whose basic features are horror and fear. The content of this story style is made up of many scary themes that have
Saeede Vahabi +2 more
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'From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers': prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946) [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the prestige ‘shocker’ The Spiral Staircase (1946), suggesting that it challenges the perception of the decline in quality in the horror genre in the 1940s, as well as assumptions in scholarship that the genre has historically been ...
Snelson, Tim
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