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Jewish Horror Cinema

Abstract This chapter examines the complex relationship between Judaism and horror cinema, distinguishing between films that merely feature Jewish characters and those that engage substantively with Jewish folklore and cosmology. While Jews often appear marginally in Christian-centric horror films like The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen
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Fear in the Cinema and the Definition of Horror

2021
This chapter presents the view that horror’s principal differentiating function is to induce fear. Some of the worries that have been noted in the literature regarding this thesis are dispelled. Topics considered include the distinction between “pure” and “hybrid” forms of the genre, the multifarious import of representations of violence and gore, and ...
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A Wilderness of Horrors? British Horror Cinema in the New Millennium

Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2012
In the concluding section of the first edition of English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, Jonathan Rigby stated that ‘like all things, the British horror cinema emerged, flowered briefly, decayed and then died’ (2000: 245). Although a number of independently produced, lowbudget horror films, did emerge amid the success of Four Weddings and a ...
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Tax Shelter Terrors: Cinépix and the Hidden History of 1970s Canadian Horror Cinema

Shocking Cinema of the 70s, 2022
Xavier Mendik
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Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze

, 2022
R. Barraclough
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Giallo!: genre, modernity, and detection in Italian horror cinema

Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2021
I. Olney
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Lindsey Decker, Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema

Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2021
Nia Edwards-Behi
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Hong Kong Horror Cinema

2018
Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up images of horror quite unlike those found in other parts of the world. In seminal films such as A Chinese Ghost Story , Rouge
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Korean Horror Cinema

Choice Reviews Online, 2013
Martin, Daniel, Peirse, A.
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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

2014
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially ...
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