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Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema.
Sexton, Jamie
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“Horror Film”: How the Term Came to Be [PDF]

open access: yesMonstrum, 2018
Traces how the term "horror film" came to be in 1930s writing on cinema, particularly around the release of Dracula and Frankenstein (both 1931).
Gary D. Rhodes
doaj  

Flatliners (2017): In the border between life and Death

open access: yesRevista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies, 2019
Flatliners (2017) is a science fiction horror film. Directed by Niels Arden, as a remake of the original from 1990´s film. Starring renowned actors such as Ellen Page, Kiefer Sutherland and Diego Luna. The film shows the life of five medical students and
José Patricio NOVELO PÉREZ   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Peeping Tom: The Petrifying Gaze of Mechanical Medusa [PDF]

open access: yesMonstrum, 2018
This study of Michael Powell's game-changing horror film Peeping Tom (1960) challenges the psychoanalytical frameworks most often associated with (and encouraged by) the film.
Virginie Selavy
doaj  

Zdarzenie – między horrorem a baśnią

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2016
An Event – between horror and fairy tale An Event (Događaj, 1969) is one of the few Croatian horror movies. In comparison to other examples of the use of the horror genre in Croatian cinema, the film is distinguished by its aesthetic sophistication and
Patryk Pająk
doaj   +1 more source

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Japanese horror film, by Colette Balmain [book review]

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2009
Book review, Colette Balmain. Introduction to Japanese horror film. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. £16.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-7486-2475-1.
Alessia Alfieroni
doaj   +1 more source

Asian Horror: The Factors Driving Thai And Japanese Horror Film Industry: An Analysis Towards Ringu (1998) And Shutter (2004) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper discusses theoretically on the factors driving the Thai & Japanese horror film industry. The appeal of horror films from these countries is due to the uniqueness of their culture, religious beliefs, as well as socio-political circumstances ...
Azizul Rahman , Mahfudz   +1 more
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