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John Carpenters ›Halloween‹ – Beispiel einer softwaregestützten Spannungsanalyse

Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
Based on the exemplary research project for the investigation of a horror film corpus, the system for the categorical classification and annotation of suspense content as well as the results of the algorithmic recognition of
Julian Sittel
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“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

Maria Labo: A Semiotic Analysis of Fear

Journal of Literature and Education
This study examines how fear is constructed through semiotic elements in the Filipino horror film Maria Labo (2015). Based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotic theory, the study examines how signs, symbols, gestures, and cinematic methods function as ...
John Jonathan Normandia, Irjane Eunice Andico, Eve Mariane Bayot, Mitzi Boliboli, Jean Mar Berame   +4 more
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Les remakes comme témoins de la poétique du cinéma d’horreur hollywoodien contemporain

Mise au Point, 2018
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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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Audience reaction movie trailers and the Paranormal Activity franchise

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2015
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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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime

British Journal of Psychology, Volume 117, Issue 3, Page 880-909, August 2026.
Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan, Christian Rominger, Simon Ceh, Katharina Sattler, Sarah‐Vanessa Veit, Andreas Fink   +5 more
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Hyperreality, Polarization and Prejudice: Social Media Descriptions of Swedish Child Welfare Services

Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 1623-1632, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
wiley   +1 more source

The First Fantasy Characters of the Mexican Cinema: from Ghosts to Vampires

Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017
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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