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 "
Steve Jones, Jones, Steve
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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American Horror Story and Cult Television:Narratives, Histories and Discourses
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other ...
Hand, Richard J., O'Thomas, Mark
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Halloween episode as a parodic excuse in American Horror Story [PDF]
, 2016 Treball Final de Grau en Comunicació Audiovisual. Codi: CA0932. Curs acadèmic: 2015/2016La ficción televisiva norteamericana acostumbra a realizar un episodio especial de Halloween en sus temporadas.
Serret Lanchares, Ernest
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“Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror [PDF]
, 2019 From the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.
Caitlin Duffy
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“Authentic” Science: A Conversation With Philosopher Melinda Bonnie Fagan, Ph.D.
Science Education, EarlyView.
Melinda Bonnie Fagan, David Stroupe
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Cripping American Horror Story
, 2013 Both seasons of American Horror Story have included and focused on characters with disabilities. I will be exploring the meaning of these representations and what they say about the horror genre and what they say about people with disabilities.
Lewis, Ethan
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Nouvelle mestiza : une Mexican Gothic comme personnage-territoire à la croisée des genres
AmerikaIn her 1987 book Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa predicted the emergence of the « new mestiza », an identity at the intersection of cultures. This paper takes a comparative approach to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) and examines the use of ...
Marion Zell
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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