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Review: Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder
Open Screens, 2018 This is a book review of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide to horror cinema.
John Lynskey
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, 2021 From scary stories to horror films and haunted houses, the horror genre is wildly popular. Although horror aims to elicit fear and anxiety, many people with anxiety are horror fans and some report using horror to cope with anxiety.
Coltan Scrivner, K. Christensen
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Emotion Review, 2021 Many of the most popular and critically acclaimed horror films feature grief as a central theme. This article argues that horror films are especially suited to portraying and communicating the phenomenology of grief.
Becky Millar, Jonny Lee
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Film Horor Sebuah Definisi yang Berubah
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2003 Horror film is a film genre that presents things that are frightening, tense, and horrifying. The idea of horror film is basically to terrorize the audience through various terrifying acts or actors.
M. Yoesoef
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The Horror of the Anthropocene
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2018 In this essay I explore the profound and specific fastening of horror to the Anthropocene by considering both scientific and philosophical responses to our contemporary moment.
Sarah Dillon
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The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 2020 Why do some types of settings and some combinations of sensory information induce a sense of dread in humans? This article brings empirical evidence from psychological research to bear on the experience of horror, and explains why the tried-and-true ...
F. T. McAndrew
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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, Elif Asude Tunca
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'From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers': prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946) [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the prestige ‘shocker’ The Spiral Staircase (1946), suggesting that it challenges the perception of the decline in quality in the horror genre in the 1940s, as well as assumptions in scholarship that the genre has historically been ...
Snelson, Tim
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Psychology and neurobiology of horror movies
ProjectionsThis review covers the neurobiological and psychological aspects of fear and anxiety from the perspective of creating effective horror movies. The review begins with biological mechanisms of the fear response, and then discusses the specific techniques ...
L. Nummenmaa
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