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Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020

open access: yesCogent Arts and Humanities, 2023
The antagonist representations in horror films demonstrate how cultural symptoms of a community respond to fear. The diachronic analysis in this study employs a mixed method to analyze the dynamics of antagonist representation in Indonesian horror films.
Justito Adiprasetio
exaly   +4 more sources

Zombie-Themes Outbreak Films and World War Z (2013)

open access: yesCINEJ Cinema Journal, 2022
There are many subgenres and a diverse range of creatures in horror cinema. One of these creatures is the Zombie. The Zombie character in cinema has evolved through eras.
Barış Tolga Ekinci
doaj   +1 more source

Horror cinema and sadistic spectacle: A further defense of gorefests

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
Dismemberment via chainsaw, consuming organs from a living person, turning a body inside out via spectral hooks. Horror cinema is no stranger to intense, often controversial imagery.
Marius A. Pascale
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Between Profit and Quality; A Challenge of Indonesian Cinema

open access: yesKalijaga Journal of Communication, 2022
Horror is one of the most popular film genres, particularly among Indonesians. One of the reasons the Indonesian people love watching a horror movie is because of the sensation of a jump scare.
Puji Lestari, Lambok Hermanto Sihombing
doaj   +1 more source

Onde Vivem os Monstros? Enlaces entre Cinema, Adolescência e Horror

open access: yesEstudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia, 2023
Partindo da ideia de Stephen King de que as produções de horror servem como um barômetro muito preciso que aponta aquilo que aterroriza uma sociedade, este artigo tem como objetivo propor uma reflexão acerca dos enlaces entre adolescência, cinema e ...
Bruna Rabello de Moraes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Era of Horror Franchising

open access: yesГалактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022
Book review: McKenna, M. & Proctor, W. (Eds.), (2021). Horror Franchise Cinema. Routledge.
Alexander V. Pavlov
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a feminist historiography of horror cinema

open access: yesHorror Studies, 2022
Jackie Kong released four feature films between 1981 and 1987, including the horror films The Being (1981) and Blood Diner (1987). She directed all four films, while also working variously as screenwriter, producer and editor on individual productions ...
A. Peirse
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conservative Themes in Turkish Horror Cinema

open access: yessinecine Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
This study is based on the idea that cultural productions cannot be assessed independent from social experiences of the era they are produced in, and that movies can be considered descriptive and critical instruments which illuminate ideological ...
Selin Celik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Contemporary Gothic Horror Cinema: The Imagined Pasts and Traumatic Ghosts of Crimson Peak (2015) and The Woman in Black (2012)

open access: yesLit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2022
Among the hundreds of horror films produced so far in the twenty-first century, there have been quite a few prominent trends, many of which are explored elsewhere in this special journal issue: found footage horror, “torture porn,” zombie films ...
Xavier Aldana Reyes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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