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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Why do we watch and like horror films? Despite a century of horror film making and entertainment, little research has examined the human motivation to watch fictional horror and how horror film influences individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional
G. Neil Martin
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PhilosophiesThe article starts from Gilles Deleuze’s assumption of film being a philosophy in its own right and applies it to the horror genre. It reads Stanley Cavell’s concept of genre, Timothy Jay Walker’s work on the Horror of the Other (1) and Eugene Thacker’s ...
Lorenz Engell
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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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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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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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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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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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Schermi, 2021 The article deals with a form of film censorship enacted from the late 1910s to the mid- 1970s by the Italian state: the so-called “preventive censorship”, i. e. the pre-shooting check of the screenplays that Italian producers wanted to turn into movies.
Michael Guarneri
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Analisis Semiotika Terhadap Tokoh Utama Perempuan dalam Film Perempuan Tanah Jahanam
Az-Zahra, 2023 Horror is still a popular genre in the growth of Indonesian films. Female characters are often featured iconically in the narrative of a horror film. However, there is a negative stigma about the presence of female characters in horror films who appear ...
Glen Aviaro Samanda, Ade Kusuma
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Film Horor Sebuah Definisi yang Berubah
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2003 Horror film is a film genre that presents things that are frightening, tense, and horrifying. The idea of horror film is basically to terrorize the audience through various terrifying acts or actors.
M. Yoesoef
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