“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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Les remakes comme témoins de la poétique du cinéma d’horreur hollywoodien contemporain
This articles focuses on the recent cycle of Hollywood remakes of American horror movies of the 1970s-1980s. Comparative analysis reveals the extent to which the big budget remakes of the 2000s testify to a homogenization of contemporary Hollywood horror
David Roche
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
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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Audience reaction movie trailers and the Paranormal Activity franchise
This article addresses the concept and growing practice of audience reaction movie trailers, specifically for films in the horror genre. Popularized by the Paranormal Activity series of films, these trailers primarily utilize green night-vision video ...
Alexander Swanson
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Monstrous schoolgirls: Casual sex in the twenty-first-century horror film [PDF]
In a teaser trailer for Scream 4 (2011), the latest installment in a franchise famous for parodying the conventions of horror films, a character lists some of the new rules of twenty-first-century incarnations of the genre, one of which is “virgins can ...
Renner, Karen J.
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
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 portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray
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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The First Fantasy Characters of the Mexican Cinema: from Ghosts to Vampires
This article explores the kind of fantasy characters of Mexican film between 1933 and 1969. The appearance of these characters is related to two periods of Mexican film industry: the thirties, an epoch of cinematic experimentation and the search of new ...
María Dolores Cabrera Carreón
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Movies that blow your mind : thematische Strukturen in den Filmen David Cronenbergs ; eine kommentierte Filmografie [PDF]
"Wenn mich die Leute fragen: 'Warum drehen sie Horror-Filme?', muss ich unmittelbar zu Aristoteles und seiner Theorie der Katharsis zurückgehen, als Rechtfertigung der Tragödie, oder sogar der Komödie.
Höltgen, Stefan
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Introduction : screen Londons [PDF]
Our aim, in editing the ‘London Issue’ of this journal, is to contribute to a conversation between scholars of British cinema and television, London historians and scholars of the cinematic city.
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