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A utilitarian antagonist: the zombie in popular video games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article takes as its starting point the prevalence of the zombie in video games. I argue that, although the zombie games often superficially resemble filmic texts in their use of aesthetic and narrative, they must be understood, less as a set of ...
A Tudor   +11 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Sex and Horror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The combination of sex and horror may be disquieting to many, but the two are natural (if perhaps gruesome) bedfellows. In fact, sex and horror coincide with such regularity in contemporary horror fiction that the two concepts appear to be at least ...
Jones, Steve
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on the Terror Film

open access: yesForum, 2006
The purpose of this paper—perhaps really more a set of somewhat informal notes, in the manner suggested by David Bordwell (28)—is to provide a broad brushstroke picture of the terror film from its beginnings, arguably coeval with cinema itself, to the ...
Keith Brown
doaj   +3 more sources

JOE DANTE, O HORROR E O BAIXO ORÇAMENTO: PIRANHAS, GRITOS DE HORROR E DESENHOS ANIMADOS

open access: yesRebeca, 2016
Neste artigo estudaremos os dois primeiros longas que Joe Dante realizou após Hollywood Boulevard (codirigido por Allan Arkush), sua estreia no cinema: Piranha (1978) e Grito de horror (1981).
Sérgio Eduardo Alpendre de Oliveira
doaj   +1 more source

(G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article’s subject is Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992), a drama broadcast on Halloween night of 1992 which adopted the rhetoric of live non-fiction programming, and attracted controversy and ultimately censure from the Broadcasting Standards Council.
Barr C.   +28 more
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Crystal Lake : un territoire horrifique, étude géographique de la saga Vendredi 13

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2018
Even if many geographical studies about cinema are recently published, the subject of horror movies – and even more mainstream horror movies – haven’t been tackle yet.
Milena Gobet‑Di Maggio
doaj   +1 more source

East Asian Gothic : a definition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper offers a definition of East Asian Gothic cinema in which a shared cultural mythology, based upon cultural proximity and intra-regional homologies, provides a cinematic template of ghosts and ghouls together with a grotesque menagerie of ...
Balmain, Colette
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