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, 2005 Pleasures of Horror is a stimulating and insightful exploration of horror fictions—literary, cinematic and televisual—and the emotions they engender in their audiences. The text is divided into three sections.
Hills, Matthew James
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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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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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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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MYSTERY IN TECHNO-HORROR. ON THE EXAMPLE OF KAIRO (2001) BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA
Litteraria 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
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Многоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2019 Although the genre of horror has gained an extraordinary popularity in contemporary literature, it still raises controversy among specialists. The situation in Russia is especially complicated.
Vyacheslav Sergeevich Malykh
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Journal 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
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Extreme Horror: The Genre, The Controversy
, 2021 It’s no secret that the extreme horror world is one rife with controversy. It’s often shrouded in secrecy, and rumors run amuck. A big question that is often asked of fans of extreme horror is “why do you like these movies?”.
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Horrible Heroes: Liberating Alternative Visions of Disability in Horror
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2016 Understanding disability requires understanding its social construction, and social construction can be read in cultural products. In this essay, I look to one major locus for images of persons with disabilities—horror.
Melinda Hall
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