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Childhood Studies and the Politics of Horror

American Literary History, 2023
AbstractThree [new] scholarly works … examine narratives in which childhood frightens both the children themselves and, more often, the adults observing childhood. … The childhoods they show can be both other and othering.
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Studying Horror Cinema

2019
Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, this book is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key
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"The Horror": The Subject of Desire in Postcolonial Studies

American Anthropologist, 1997
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Anne McClintock. New York: Routledge, 1995. 449 pp.Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 238 pp.Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race.
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Studying Hammer Horror

2016
When Hammer Productions was formed in the 1920s, no one foresaw the impact this small, independent studio would have on the international film market. Christopher Lee's mesmerizing, animalistic, yet gentlemanly performance as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Mummy were celebrated worldwide, and the Byronic qualities of ...
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An Empirical Study of Horror in Stephen King’s The Stand

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ; Vol. 7 No. 4 (2019): Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2019; 9, 2019
Modern horror fiction would not be complete without the landmark works and ideas of author Stephen King. According to the famous critic Hank Wagner the universe of Stephen King is an incredible place of grotesque terror, dark magic and fearsome wonder, a great multiverse conjured from one individual’s imagination.
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An Ecofeminist Study of the Body Horror Film

Communications in Humanities Research
Horror is the primitive psychology inherent to humans. Centering on the contemporary development of the body horror film, this study applies a method combining theoretical criticism and textual analysis, taking Titane (2021) and The Substance (2024) as two case studies, to conduct an ecofeminist investigation into the body horror film.
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The Turkish response to Bulgarian horrors: A study in English Turcophobia

Middle Eastern Studies, 2006
Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, in which he defined the Turks as ‘the one great anti-human specimen of humanity’, 1 marks the manifestation of Turcophobia in la...
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