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Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2017 Abstract
Fisher, Austin, Walker, J.
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The monstrous metallic in medicine and horror cinema.
Medicina nei secoli, 2015 `This paper considers the monstrous nature of medical tools and devices through the lens of horror cinema and the art of Damien Hirst. In it I argue for a shift from the monster and the monstrous as organic to the threat of the monster as an inorganic object in tools such as the scalpel and syringe. However, the metaphorical significance of the monster
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2016
The first book-length academic investigation of Italian horror cinema, from the silent era to the present, this collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the different phases in its history, the peculiarities of the production system, the work of its most ...
Baschiera, Stefano, Hunter, Russ
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The first book-length academic investigation of Italian horror cinema, from the silent era to the present, this collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the different phases in its history, the peculiarities of the production system, the work of its most ...
Baschiera, Stefano, Hunter, Russ
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Pearls and Pitfalls in the Horror Cinema
Seminars in Neurology, 1998Observations on the neurologic signs and symptoms of Count Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster are presented as viewed by a specialist in neuromuscular disease. Key clinical features of these horror movie figures illustrate a variety of pearls in the diagnosis of a variety of neurologic disorders, including porphyria, lead poisoning ...
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Film Quarterly, 1993
devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn't only destroy; it creates and molds as well. Let's examine closely, then, this dangerously evil creation, this new breed encased and contained within the supple skin of Woman.
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devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn't only destroy; it creates and molds as well. Let's examine closely, then, this dangerously evil creation, this new breed encased and contained within the supple skin of Woman.
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2022
A review of how horror cinema influenced Scorsese’s filmmaking from his early shorts up to Goodfellas, his film before Cape Fear. Using Scorsese’s 11 favourite horror movies as a foundation, the chapter identifies recurring motifs in his filmography that also routinely appear in horror films, including guilt, sexual dread and violence, religious dread,
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A review of how horror cinema influenced Scorsese’s filmmaking from his early shorts up to Goodfellas, his film before Cape Fear. Using Scorsese’s 11 favourite horror movies as a foundation, the chapter identifies recurring motifs in his filmography that also routinely appear in horror films, including guilt, sexual dread and violence, religious dread,
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2017
This chapter establishes that Roman Polanski's Macbeth used the conventions of the horror genre to represent William Shakespeare's play on screen. It considers how Macbeth is placed in the wider historical context of the horror genre itself. It also examines how Macbeth fits with the Folk Horror The Wicker Man (1973) or slasher classic Halloween (1978)
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This chapter establishes that Roman Polanski's Macbeth used the conventions of the horror genre to represent William Shakespeare's play on screen. It considers how Macbeth is placed in the wider historical context of the horror genre itself. It also examines how Macbeth fits with the Folk Horror The Wicker Man (1973) or slasher classic Halloween (1978)
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2018
An introduction to what the book defines as exploitation-horror – tracing the term back to Robin Wood and discussing how the style of this demarcation might be seen to hold similar aesthetic and thematic pretensions to that of the post-classical sexploitation movement. Historic appreciation of the key films is introduced alongside how some of the films
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An introduction to what the book defines as exploitation-horror – tracing the term back to Robin Wood and discussing how the style of this demarcation might be seen to hold similar aesthetic and thematic pretensions to that of the post-classical sexploitation movement. Historic appreciation of the key films is introduced alongside how some of the films
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Studies in European Cinema, 2018
It would be fair to say that academic histories of horror cinema have traditionally treated the Italian variant on the genre with a certain amount of confusion, snobbishness and disdain.
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It would be fair to say that academic histories of horror cinema have traditionally treated the Italian variant on the genre with a certain amount of confusion, snobbishness and disdain.
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