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Extreme Horror: The Genre, The Controversy

open access: yes, 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?”.
Taylor, Alison   +4 more
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Horror effect technique through the application of ‘Film Language’ on four selected horror films [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This research is to describe the application of Film Language in four selected horror films. This analysis refers to method done by the filmmakers in creating horror effect to audience through the use of Film Language.
Zairul Anwar Md. Dawam   +3 more
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Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror

open access: yes, 2022
This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the ‘monstrous feminine’ has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and ...
Baker, Lucy, Howell, Amanda
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Hyde's horrors [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1998
Can you tell a criminal from the look of his face? The “downright detestable” appearance of Robert Louis Stevenson's evil Mr Hyde stands in the same tradition as the images used by Darwin in his work on pathognomics.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesFedro, 2020
“El horror, el horror”. Con estas palabras finaliza El corazón de las tinieblas, la célebre novela de Joseph Conrad. Más que de una impresión o de una simple experiencia, tenemos la sospecha de que lo que el coronel Kurt, cuyos perfiles en nuestra ...
Revista Fedro
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Killer plants and fungi in horror cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Animals have been the focus of horror films since the very beginning of the genre, with more than 400 films about killer animals to date. That is not the case for other two “Kingdoms” of life – Plantae and Fungi – despite many plants and fungi ...
Rasia, Luciano Luis
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

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