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A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023 Both fear and horror have been extensively explored as universal unpleasant emotions with significant effects on psychological well-being. It is believed that horror is the feeling aroused when watching a horror film, and a sense of suspense and ...
Ferdi Bozkurt +1 more
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The role of excitement and enjoyment through subjective evaluation of horror film scenes. [PDF]
Sci RepThe popularity of the horror genre is constantly increasing and still has not reached its peak. As a recreational activity, people watch horror movies in pursuit of excitement and enjoyment.
Kiss BL +4 more
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Gangs and guilt: Towards a new theory of horror film [PDF]
, 2016 The most basic and unanimous statement made in scholarship on horror films is that horror films are ‘about’ fear: the primary purpose of horror films is to scare viewers.
Alford CF +20 more
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Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Spanish horror film, Edinburgh, University Press Edinburg, 2012. [PDF]
Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2013 Obra ressenyada: Antonio LÁZARO-REBOLL, Spanish horror film.
Rubén Sánchez
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From Social Allegory to Political Statement: Academic Reception of American Horror of the 21st Century [PDF]
Антиномии, 2023 For a long time, horror was an entertaining cinema genre. Since the late 1970s, critics and scholars have gradually started to examine it in terms of social and political content, often conveyed allegorically.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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Between Profit and Quality; A Challenge of Indonesian Cinema
Kalijaga Journal of Communication, 2022 Horror is one of the most popular film genres, particularly among Indonesians. One of the reasons the Indonesian people love watching a horror movie is because of the sensation of a jump scare.
Puji Lestari, Lambok Hermanto Sihombing
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Psychology of Music, 2022 Previous studies have explored the impact of music on emotional visual material and examined the impact of the placement of music on neutral film scenes, but there has not been any link between these two topics so far.
Larina Sue Meinel, Claudia Bullerjahn
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A Data Set for US Horror Film Trailers
Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021 This article presents a new data set comprising audio, colour, motion, and shot length data of trailers for the fifty highest grossing horror films at the US box office from 2011 to 2015.
Nick Redfern
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Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2023 This article examines Roman Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby (1968) as both a symptom and a manifestation of the cultural and political upheavals of the late 1960s.
Thorsten Carstensen
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Anthropologists in Films: “The Horror! The Horror!” [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 2015 Drawing upon 53 films featuring fictional representations of anthropologists, we explore in this article the popular depiction and perception of anthropology by examining portrayals of the discipline in film. Finding that 26 of the 53 can be categorized as horror films, we examine the role of anthropologists in these films as experts and mediators for ...
Weston, Gavin +3 more
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