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“A malignant, seething hatework”: an introduction to U.S. 21st century hardcore horror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The proliferation of U.S. horror films in the 21 st century has engendered an increase in critical and academic response which has almost exclusively focused on the conventions of mainstream horror cinema.
Aston, James
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Horror jako gatunek transmedialny — prolegomena

open access: yesZagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
The article is an introduction to the exploration of horror as a transmedia genre. Contemporary horror is growing in popularity and functions in various media: literature, film, video games, streaming platforms, comics, but also in art or the ...
Anna Zatora   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Une lecture des films d’horreur épidémique

open access: yesTracés, 2011
The growing success of the epidemic horror films needs explanation. One answer is that the fans of the genre are ready to endure horror in order to see and know what horror the idea of epidemics can inspire them with.
Hugo Clémot
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Psycholinguistic and cognitive-semiotic dimensions of constructing fear in horror films: A multimodal perspective

open access: yesEast European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2023
This article addresses an integrative psycholinguistic and cognitive-semiotic perspective on constructing fear in English horror films. At the heart of constructing fear in horror film is the filmmakers’ presumption that viewers can potentially share ...
Tetiana Krysanova
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A Cloud of Vapour, the Cool of the Cellar: the Horror Genre in Latvian Literature

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 2014
The paper gives an insight into the horror fiction genre in Latvian literature, from folklore to modern literary works. Although the horror genre is represented by only a few works in Latvian literature, these works manifest several national ...
Bārbala Simsone
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Sex and Horror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The combination of sex and horror may be disquieting to many, but the two are natural (if perhaps gruesome) bedfellows. In fact, sex and horror coincide with such regularity in contemporary horror fiction that the two concepts appear to be at least ...
Jones, Steve
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dekonstruksi elemen horor dalam kumpulan cerpen Sihir Perempuan karya Intan Paramaditha

open access: yesDiglosia
This study reveals the deconstruction of horror elements in the short story collection Sihir Perempuan by Intan Paramaditha. The elements are the monster and art-horror elements formulated in Noël Carroll's theory of horror.
Ponco Adi Nugroho   +4 more
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Learning Spirits: Spectral Pedagogy and Vegan Horror

open access: yesJournal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2019
This paper examines “the figure of the animal” in horror cinema, and in particular the ways its deployment reveals deep anxieties about our treatment of nonhumans more generally.
Rick Kelley
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Converging Horror: analyzing the importance of Convergence Culture on a digital audience through an examination of the conventions and politics of the horror genre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This thesis draws attention to the genre of horror in new media through a close examination of various digital texts, arguing that these new texts, while built on traditional horror narratives used in cinema, are also examples of Convergence Culture, a ...
Fox, Kelsey M
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