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Por um modelo actancial do corpo em metamorfose no cinema de horror

open access: yesEstudos Semióticos, 2013
Não há como escapar da afirmação de que o cinema de horror postula as agruras do medo na representação grotesca do corpo. Um subgênero que desponta desse tipo de cinema é o horror corporal, em que o efeito de sentido do medo é proveniente da ...
Odair José Moreira da Silva
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Observe, Dismember, Overcome: "Resident Evil 4" (2005; 2023) and "Dead Space" (2008; 2023) as Video Game Extensions of the Body Horror Subgenre

open access: yesZagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and 1980s and shaped by new filmmaking
Paweł Baran
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Zumbis no cinema brasileiro: uma abordagem paracinemática

open access: yesRumores, 2014
Um dos monstros mais populares do imaginário do cinema de horror internacional desde a década de 1930, o zumbi demorou a aparecer no cinema brasileiro, e tem permanecido uma figura marginal nos filmes produzidos no país.
Rodrigo Carreiro
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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A General Look on the Impact of Turkish Horror Movies: An Exploratory Study on the Opinions of Youth on Horror Movies

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
This study aims to examine young Turkish university students’ perceptions on horror movies and the impact of this genre on them. Also, this study aims to gain an understanding of the role of makeup and special effect makeup in horror movies for this ...
Vali Gjinali, Elif Asude Tunca
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A portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Neil Bartlett's 2012 theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray presents a provocative reimagining of Wilde's novel, emphasizing its homoerotic and aesthetic dimensions while engaging with the historical and cultural anxieties surrounding queerness.
Younes Poorghorban
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“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martínez-Biurrun, The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Mod-ern Horror Cinema. I Am What Haunts Me, Routledge, Londres, 2025.

open access: yesBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico
Reseña Carlos Pitillas and Ismael Martínez-Biurrun, The Psychodynamics of Trauma and Mod-ern Horror Cinema. I Am What Haunts Me, Routledge, Londres, 2025.
Miguel Carrera Garrido
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Marharhahar Z!namabarn: Breve panorama do cinema de zumbi na América Latina

open access: yesRumores, 2013
Através de um breve panorama do cinema de zumbi na América Latina, o presente texto buscar lançar luz sobre o crescimento das produções do gênero, considerando os fatores que contribuíram para esse crescimento, dentre os quais a maior acessibilidade a ...
Alfredo Suppia, Lúcio Reis Filho
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