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Frontiers 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
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SAGE Open, 2020 This study aims to examine young Turkish university students’ perceptions on horror movies and the impact of this genre on them. Also, this study aims to gain an understanding of the role of makeup and special effect makeup in horror movies for this ...
Vali Gjinali
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Cogent Education, 2016 Considering works of Horror artistic manifestations of cultural nightmares, the author takes up the charge that dreams deserve a place in the study of curriculum.
James Grant, Kris Gritter
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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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From Social Allegory to Political Statement: Academic Reception of American Horror of the 21st Century [PDF]
Антиномии, 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
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A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming
CINEJ 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
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Cogent 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
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Postklasyczna groza. Przeobrażenia fuzji gatunkowej survival horroru
Images, 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
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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 ...
Weston, Gavin +3 more
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