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Cringe Comedy as Social Horror
Rivista di EsteticaWhy do we enjoy comedy that makes us cringe in embarrassment? This paper makes the case that cringe comedy is a form of social horror, and many of the theoretical approaches that have been developed to analyze the appeal of horror fictions can be ...
Matthew Strohl
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“Spaces of Contemporary Horror: Poverty and Social Exclusion as 21st Century Spectres” [PDF]
Home Cultures, 2019 This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horror film.
Aaron Rodríguez Serrano
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Teaching Social Critique to Adults with A Desktop Horror Myth Game
Procedia Computer Science, 2018 Abstract This paper propose a serious game to teach social critique to adults with a desktop horror myth game, as the moral story of the myth fits to the social subject to teach to the player/learner. Social problems have been an interesting subject to talk, discuss, and debate in all around the world.
Andry Chowanda
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From Social Allegory to Political Statement: Academic Reception of American Horror of the 21st Century [PDF]
Антиномии, 2023 For a long time, horror was an entertaining cinema genre. Since the late 1970s, critics and scholars have gradually started to examine it in terms of social and political content, often conveyed allegorically.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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A Corpus-Based Socio-Onomastic Analysis On Turkish And American Horror Film Naming
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023 Both fear and horror have been extensively explored as universal unpleasant emotions with significant effects on psychological well-being. It is believed that horror is the feeling aroused when watching a horror film, and a sense of suspense and ...
Ferdi Bozkurt +1 more
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Cogent 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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Psychophysiological correlates of sexually and non-sexually motivated attention to film clips in a workload task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Some authors have speculated that the cognitive component (P3) of the Event-Related Potential (ERP) can function as a psychophysiological measure of sexual interest. The aim of this study was to determine if the P3 ERP component in a workload task can be
Sandra Carvalho +3 more
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A Study of the story "The Myth of Al-Naddaha " by Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq through social criticism [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2023 Introduction: New studies in the content analysis of fiction and novels are as extensive as critical approaches and fictional texts. In this regard, social criticism is a subset of author-centric or hypertext criticism.
Reza Mirzaie, Alireza Shaikhi
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Horrible Heroes: Liberating Alternative Visions of Disability in Horror
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2016 Understanding disability requires understanding its social construction, and social construction can be read in cultural products. In this essay, I look to one major locus for images of persons with disabilities—horror.
Melinda Hall
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2018 Purpose. The article is devoted to horror films as forms of anthropological crisis in mass culture, which generate specific meanings and are presented in ways of control over consumer society, as well as act as unconscious ideological mediators of ...
S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita
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