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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
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Czarne cierpienie, dekontekstualizacja i problemy współczesnego horroru rasowego
This article examines the problematic issues surrounding horror films that have addressed race since the release of Get Out. The article outlines the significance of Jordan Peele’s feature film debut, considering context of black horror, as well as the ...
Dominik Langiewicz
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The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak +3 more
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The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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THE GENDER ASPECT OF THE HORROR IN SWISS CINEMA OF THE 1980S.
The focus of this article is on the phenomenon of the horror, in particular the gender aspect in Swiss horror films of the early 1980s. Initially, it points to the important role of research on the phenomenon of the horror in philosophy and psychology ...
Uliana Abashnik
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ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Horror jako gatunek transmedialny — prolegomena
The article is an introduction to the exploration of horror as a transmedia genre. Contemporary horror is growing in popularity and functions in various media: literature, film, video games, streaming platforms, comics, but also in art or the ...
Anna Zatora +1 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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The Peripeteias of Cultural Politics in “The Craft” (1996)
The paper is a detailed analysis of Miranda Corcoran's monograph on the 1996 horror film “The Craft”, published in the “Devil's Advocates” series. Corcoran specializes in the representation of young witches in popular culture.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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