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Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, 2010 Paul-Erik Korvela
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Gaming Horror’s Horror: Representation, Regulation, and Affect in Survival Horror Videogames
Journal of Visual Culture, 2015 This position article outlines a personal perspective on the way that Horror games create affect in a complex play between representation and performance and that, in some cases, operate against the usual Vitruvian coordinates of games that are used in order to work with the types of affect associated with pleasure, agency and assuredness.
Tanya Krzywinska
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Anthropologists in Films: “The Horror! The Horror!” [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 2015 Drawing upon 53 films featuring fictional representations of anthropologists, we explore in this article the popular depiction and perception of anthropology by examining portrayals of the discipline in film. Finding that 26 of the 53 can be categorized as horror films, we examine the role of anthropologists in these films as experts and mediators for ...
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BMJ, 1988 Posttraumatic stress disorder is formal terminology for a common condition, the psychological problems that follow exposure to events such as the Bradford football stadium fire, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, the Vietnam war, or some less well publicised and more private horror such as assault or rape.
Rapheal B., Middleton W.
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Nature, 1998 Can you tell a criminal from the look of his face? The “downright detestable” appearance of Robert Louis Stevenson's evil Mr Hyde stands in the same tradition as the images used by Darwin in his work on pathognomics.
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Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2018 Le fantastique est un genre difficile a cerner, ses frontieres sont incertaines et il est souvent defini par rapport a celles qui le separent de ses genres voisins : le merveilleux et la science-fiction. Cette etude, centree sur la fiction fantastique d’horreur, interroge cette notion de frontiere a travers une reflexion sur les limites qui separent ce
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Horror Zivilisationis, or the Horror of Subjectivity
The Beacon: Journal for Studying Ideologies and Mental Dimensions, 2019 In the paper, the problem of the relationship between culture and civilisation, is studied. Civilisation is understood as the external expression of culture, while culture represents the content of civilisation. The relationships between culture and civilisation are always tense. The author also considers civilisation as the death of culture.
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, 2013 “Life,” so Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space on a note of steadfast optimism, “begins well, it begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house.”1 To the critic, Bachelard’s remarks might be seen as emblematic of a kind of failure in phenomenology to think outside an anthropomor-phised cosmos, in which the endless void of ...
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Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 2016 This paper deals with the relationship between the real and the unreal in horror literature. Its basic premise is that the concept of evil in horror stories stems from liminal content which is the product of the authors' subjective experiences of reality.
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