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Impact of Visual and Sound Orchestration on Physiological Arousal and Tension in a Horror Game

IEEE Transactions on Games, 2021
Sarra Graja, Phil Lopes, G. Chanel
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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

A Guide to Responsible Scaring: What are the Limitations of Horror in Young Adult Fiction?

Leaf Journal
Through a close reading of recent Young Adult (YA) horror novels – including Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare; Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis; and I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea – as well as Dan Hunt’s own work-in-progress ...
Dan Hunt
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Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television [PDF]

, 2018
Television schedules in 1970s Britain were so full of with stories involving folkloric narratives featuring paganism, witchcraft, stone circles and ghosts that such tales account for many hundreds of hours of programming.
Rodgers, Diane
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

El horror en la literatura

Actio Nova, 2017
A partir del ensayo “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, de H. P. Lovecraft, hemos construido un modelo descriptivo coherente del género literario del horror con sus relaciones internas y externas, y que bien podría servir de punto de partida para ...
Fernando Darío González Grueso
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Rocky Horror: A Study in Shadows and Flight [PDF]

, 2018
“Rocky Horror: A Study in Shadows and Flight” is a creative nonfiction piece that analyzes the infamous legacy left by the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Chin, Julia M.
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Of Shining Sea and Rising Sun: cultural storytelling in the genre of horror in video games [PDF]

, 2016
In the modern era, video games are hardly the simple, mindless medium that they used to be. Rather, they are now being used as a vehicle for artistic expression and storytelling worldwide, creating a colorful and comprehensive new approach to the ...
Webster, Anna C.
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