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Shock!: slasher movie “made in Brazil”
Revista Contracampo, 2010 O presente artigo analisa o longa-metragem Shock! (São Paulo, 1982), de Jair Correia, filme juvenil brasileiro e principal representante nacional de um dos subgêneros do horror internacional mais populares no planeta desde o final dos anos 1970: o ...
Laura Loguercio Cánepa
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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A Cinema of Boredom: Heidegger, Cinematic Time and Spectatorship
Film-Philosophy, 2020 Boredom, in cinema as well as in our everyday experience, is usually associated with a generalised loss of meaning or interest. Accordingly, boredom is often perceived as that which ought to be avoided.
Chiara Quaranta
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A portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Neil Bartlett's 2012 theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray presents a provocative reimagining of Wilde's novel, emphasizing its homoerotic and aesthetic dimensions while engaging with the historical and cultural anxieties surrounding queerness.
Younes Poorghorban
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Filmes brasileiros de mulheres paranóicas: as segundas mulheres e o horror no cinema brasileiro
E-Compós, 2011 Tem-se como objetivo discutir aspectos do gênero horror presentes em cinco longas-metragens paulistas protagonizados por mulheres durante os anos 1950. Quer-se sugerir que tais obras, inspiradas no que Mary Ann Doane (1987) chamou de “paranoid woman’s films” hollywoodianos dos anos 1940, podem ter tido alguma influência sobre filmes de horror ...
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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