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(Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Why do we watch and like horror films? Despite a century of horror film making and entertainment, little research has examined the human motivation to watch fictional horror and how horror film influences individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional
G. Neil Martin
exaly   +3 more sources

Desplazamientos. Una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de escuchar el horror [PDF]

open access: yesKamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2013
Resumen: Las relaciones que existen entre la poesía y la representación del fenómeno de la Shoah han sido ampliamente estudiadas por la filosofía y los estudios literarios, interesados en todo lo que concierne a la memoria y al recuerdo del horror.
Noemí Acedo Alonso
doaj   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The antagonist representations in horror films demonstrate how cultural symptoms of a community respond to fear. The diachronic analysis in this study employs a mixed method to analyze the dynamics of antagonist representation in Indonesian horror films.
Justito Adiprasetio
doaj   +1 more source

Postklasyczna groza. Przeobrażenia fuzji gatunkowej survival horroru

open access: yesImages, 2023
This article provides an introduction to the study of the transformation of the survival horror genre. The author discusses the genre determinants of horror games from the historical perspective, draw- ing particular attention to the moment when ...
Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka
doaj   +1 more source

MYSTERY IN TECHNO-HORROR. ON THE EXAMPLE OF KAIRO (2001) BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA

open access: yesLitteraria Copernicana, 2014
In my paper I focused on the concept of horror cinema, and on how Japanese horror films functions in reception by a modern viewer. I also try to analyse interrelations between American and Japanese horror movies. I refer to the Kairo as the evidence of a
Małgorzata Major
doaj   +1 more source

Horror in the Andes

open access: yesJournal of Anthropological Films, 2020
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
doaj   +1 more source

Copyrights and digitizing the systematic literature: the horror... the horror... [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is time for us to take full advantage of the investment that our societies have made in documenting the biodiversity of the world. It is time for us to fully, and legally, make systematic literature available worldwide. Using U.S. "Fair Use"
N. Dean Pentcheff
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