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Dark Places : Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015 This article deals with the generally underestimated importance of horror fiction for eco-critical thinking about place. It looks at three major horror writers, Poe, Lovecraft, and VanderMeer, exploring the ways that each plays with and deepens our ...
Brad Tabas
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Unusually Gothic : Robert Sigl's Laurin (1987) [PDF]
, 2003 Marcus Stiglegger revives a lost Gothic treasure in this brief discussion of Robert Sigl's Laurin—a rare case of German genre film-making and the heir to FW Murnau's legacy.
Stiglegger, Marcus
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An Examination of Halloween Literature And its Effect on the Horror Genre [PDF]
This thesis will explore the effect of Halloween narratives in the wider horror genre. This will be accomplished by means of a close textual analysis with novels such as The Halloween Tree (1972) and films such as Trick ‘r Treat (2008) and Boys in the ...
Wylde, Benjamin
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper outlines the journey of an English language teaching (ELT) practitioner–researcher in terms of her evolving understanding over a 10‐year period of how an effective trauma‐informed pedagogy (TIP) might look for learners from refugee backgrounds.
Aleks Palanac
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Policy success and failure in Australia
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water ...
Keith Dowding +2 more
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Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality" [PDF]
, 2011 The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Library horror stories: Primary vs secondary sources [PDF]
, 2018 Poster made for a Halloween 2018 Library Horror Stories series mentioning different library related horror stories.
Dreyfuss, Dorian Rachel
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Horror image recognition based on context-aware multi-instance learning [PDF]
, 2015 Horror content sharing on the Web is a growing phenomenon that can interfere with our daily life and affect the mental health of those involved. As an important form of expression, horror images have their own characteristics that can evoke extreme ...
Hu, W. +5 more
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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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