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Horror as a Fundamental Philosophical Category in Dostoevsky’s Work (Based on the Novel The Double) [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал
When it comes to horror as a fundamental philosophical category, it is important to consider a number of aspects. Firstly, the difference between fear and horror is not quantitative, i.e. it is wrong to perceive horror as an accumulation of fear. Turning
Ksenia N. Kholodnova
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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“Live or die, make your choice”: American Survival Game Horror [PDF]

, 2019
From the 2007 remake of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to Adam Robitel’s Escape Room (2019), the survival game has become a recurring sub-genre of American horror cinema in the last twenty years; however, its haunting presence has yet to be fully analyzed.
Caitlin Duffy
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Espetáculos do medo: o horror como atração no cinema japonês

Revista Contracampo, 2013
Dentro da variada gama de filmes vindos da Ásia oriental, uma das mais influentes contribuições é a do cinema de horror desenvolvido no Japão a partir da segunda metade dos anos 1990, cuja inserção internacional fez com que, no Ocidente, fosse criado um “
Laura Loguercio Cánepa, Rogério Ferraraz   +1 more
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Contemporary South African horror: On meat, neo-liberalism and the postcolonial politics of a global form

, 2014
Following the postapartheid encounter with neo-liberal economics, South African cultural production has begun to register the influence of global, popular forms borne into the country on the tide of multinational capital.
Rebecca Duncan, Duncan, Rebecca,
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Horror Zivilisationis, or the Horror of Subjectivity

The Beacon: Journal for Studying Ideologies and Mental Dimensions, 2019
In the paper, the problem of the relationship between culture and civilisation, is studied. Civilisation is understood as the external expression of culture, while culture represents the content of civilisation. The relationships between culture and civilisation are always tense. The author also considers civilisation as the death of culture.
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THE BOARDERS OF HORROR [PDF]

Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2018
Le fantastique est un genre difficile a cerner, ses frontieres sont incertaines et il est souvent defini par rapport a celles qui le separent de ses genres voisins : le merveilleux et la science-fiction. Cette etude, centree sur la fiction fantastique d’horreur, interroge cette notion de frontiere a travers une reflexion sur les limites qui separent ce
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Death, disintegration of the body and subjectivity in the contemporary horror film [PDF]

This thesis is an attempt to account for the contemporary American horror film's increased reliance upon images of bodily dismemberment and decay. At the core of this exploration is an inspection of the body's capability as a metaphor by which our ...
Boss, Peter John
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