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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques
Film-PhilosophyThis article will show how, through an expressionist style that references Gothic and noir cinema, Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) mediates concepts found in contemporary post-war French existentialism, in particular the phenomenology of ...
Daniel Tilsley
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh +2 more
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Horror-Games Shortlist (2010-2017)
, 2019 von Arno Görgen und Eugen Pfister Wenn die Analyse digitaler Spiele nicht exemplarisch, sondern von einem spielübergreifenden Quellenkorpus ausgehen möchte/soll, wie es unser Projekt „Horror-Games-Politics“ vorsieht, steht sie schnell vor dem Problem ...
Eugen Pfister
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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Cringe Comedy as Social Horror
Rivista di EsteticaWhy do we enjoy comedy that makes us cringe in embarrassment? This paper makes the case that cringe comedy is a form of social horror, and many of the theoretical approaches that have been developed to analyze the appeal of horror fictions can be ...
Matthew Strohl
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Annäherungen an das Politische im Horror - Teil 3
, 2019 Horrific Spaces / Raum und Horror. von Arno Görgen Der Raum übernimmt im Horror eine bedeutsame Funktion. Je nach Spiel dient er der Externalisierung des Monsters/des Monströsen oder aber als Moment einer bedrohten ‚Heimat‘ des Hauptprotagonisten ...
Eugen Pfister
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Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
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Horror’s Effect on Identity in Life of Pi and Arthur Gordon Pym
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2014 Both Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Narative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe provide climatic moments of horror that lead to a change of motivation. Specifically, I will be taking a look at one important scene from each novel: the
Alyx Steensma
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, 2010 This Australasian horror special issue is an important step forward in putting Australian and New Zealand horror movies on the map of film and cinema studies as a subject worthy of intellectual debate. The journal issue is the first devoted solely to the
Ryan, Mark David
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
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