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Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The antagonist representations in horror films demonstrate how cultural symptoms of a community respond to fear. The diachronic analysis in this study employs a mixed method to analyze the dynamics of antagonist representation in Indonesian horror films.
Justito Adiprasetio
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Indonesian Horror Film: Deconstruction of Repetitive Elements of Indonesian Urban Legend for Cultural Revitalization, Creativity, and Critical Thinking

open access: yes, 2020
Currently, film remains the main media for public entertainment. Of the many genres of film in Indonesia, horror is still the most popular. Unfortunately, Indonesian horror films pay little attention to the creative aspects of the story but focus on ...
Diki Tiwahyupriadi, Yulia Ayuningtyas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review: Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder

open access: yesOpen Screens, 2018
This is a book review of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide to horror cinema.
John Lynskey
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The 1930s Horror Adventure Film on Location in Jamaica: ‘Jungle Gods’, ‘Voodoo Drums’ and ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ in the ‘Secret Places of Paradise Island’

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
In this article, I consider the representation of African-Caribbean religions in the early horror adventure film from a postcolonial perspective. I do so by zooming in on Ouanga (1935), Obeah (1935), and Devil’s Daughter (1939), three low-budget horror ...
Emiel Martens
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Australian cinema's dark sun: the boom in Australian horror film production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There has been a boom in Australian horror movie production in recent years. Daybreakers (2010), Wolf Creek (2005), Rogue (2007), Undead (2003), Black Water (2008), and Storm Warning (2006) among others, have all experienced varying degrees of popularity,
Ryan, Mark David
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“A malignant, seething hatework”: an introduction to U.S. 21st century hardcore horror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The proliferation of U.S. horror films in the 21 st century has engendered an increase in critical and academic response which has almost exclusively focused on the conventions of mainstream horror cinema.
Aston, James
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Gothic/Giallo/Genre: hybrid images in Italian horror cinema, 1956-82

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2012
  Italian horror cinema is commonly divided into two periods and genres. An initial classical Gothic period spanned the years from 1956 to 1966 and was followed by a modern giallo (thriller) period from 1970 to 1982.
Keith H Brown
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Student’s Writing Which Reflect Ghost Stories in Indonesian Horror Film

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Education Students (JIES)
Horror films circulating in Indonesia today can be watched by anyone from various social media, including underage elementary school students. As a result of watching this horror film, students often fantasize and imagine everything must be scary and ...
Ratmiati Ratmiati   +3 more
semanticscholar   +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

Human cloning in film: horror, ambivalence, hope [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Fictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and
Best Steve   +23 more
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