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Do Not Read the Latin: Latin as Satanic Signifier in Supernatural Horror Cinema

, 2021
This article examines the tropological use of the Latin language to evoke the diabolical in supernatural horror cinema. When Latin is intoned in a suitably Gothic context, horror-savvy audiences have every reason to foresee the Devil and his minions ...
Nicholas Banner
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Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema

Post-Horror, 2021
This chapter examines how post-horror films often use sublime wilderness settings to emphasize a sparseness that operates in conjunction with the films’ own stylistic minimalism. Calling these films “spaced out” describes not only their literal locations,
D. Church
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Animality and Horror Cinema

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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Horror Franchise Cinema

open access: yes, 2021
This book brings together a broad range of perspectives, from both established scholars and early career researchers, to foreground a profound gap in academic studies: the horror film franchise.
Mark McKenna, William Proctor
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British Horror Cinema

2001
List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. The Return of the repressed? British Horror's heritage and future Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley 2. The British censors and horror cinema Mark Kermode 3. 'A crude sort of entertainment for a crude sort of audience': the British critics and horror cinema Julian Petley 4.
Chibnall, S., Petley, J.
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Pearls and Pitfalls in the Horror Cinema

Seminars in Neurology, 1998
Observations 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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Animal Horror Cinema

open access: yes, 2015
The first academic study of the genre of animal horror cinema is essential for cinema and animal studies scholars as well as for fans of horror film.
Hållén, Nicklas,   +2 more
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Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema


Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American horror films in the new millennium.

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Macbeth and Horror Cinema

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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