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Who is going to save the final girl? the politics of representation in the films halloween and the silence of the lambs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014Abstract: This dissertation aims at analyzing female representations ...
Boer, Raphael Albuquerque de
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The Pure Moment of Murder: The Symbolic Function of Bodily Interactions in Horror Film [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Both the slasher movie and its more recent counterpart the "torture porn" film centralize graphic depictions of violence. This article inspects the nature of these portrayals by examining a motif commonly found in the cinema of homicide, dubbed here the "
Steve Jones, Jones, Steve
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Espetáculos do medo: o horror como atração no cinema japonês

open access: yesRevista 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   +1 more
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work, edited by Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
From the gory cover art of VHS tapes to the iconic imagery of chainsaws, horror films have long been misconstrued as mere vehicles for shock and sensation.
Blake Lynch
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Senhor Babadook, Vincent e o horror materno: intertextos

open access: yesRumores, 2015
Este trabalho se propõe a analisar a relação de intertextualidade entre os filmes Senhor Babadook, de Jennifer Kent (The Babadook, Austrália, 2014) e Vincent, de Tim Burton (EUA, 1982).
Laura Canepa
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P4s Are Either Unhelpful or Unnecessary. Proposing a Better AI‐Powered Solution to Predict Patients' Preferences

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
wiley   +1 more source

Review of The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema

open access: yes, 2020
Basil Glynn, The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema. International Library of the Moving Image. Bloomsbury, 2019. 216 pp. ISBN 9781788314084 (hardcover).
Maydana, Sebastián Francisco
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Black Spider: horror made in Switzerland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Jeremias Gotthelf’s 1842 novella The Black Spider is a classic of Swiss literature – and a rare example of horror made in Switzerland. Cinema and literary critic Alan Mattli questions whether a new cinematic adaptation can help it break through ...
Mattli, Alan; https://orcid.org/
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THE GENDER ASPECT OF THE HORROR IN SWISS CINEMA OF THE 1980S.

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серия: Теорія культури та філософіі науки
The focus of this article is on the phenomenon of the horror, in particular the gender aspect in Swiss horror films of the early 1980s. Initially, it points to the important role of research on the phenomenon of the horror in philosophy and psychology ...
Uliana Abashnik
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