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A General Look on the Impact of Turkish Horror Movies: An Exploratory Study on the Opinions of Youth on Horror Movies [PDF]
SAGE Open, 2020 This study aims to examine young Turkish university students’ perceptions on horror movies and the impact of this genre on them. Also, this study aims to gain an understanding of the role of makeup and special effect makeup in horror movies for this particular audience.
Vali Gjinali
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The role of excitement and enjoyment through subjective evaluation of horror film scenes [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe popularity of the horror genre is constantly increasing and still has not reached its peak. As a recreational activity, people watch horror movies in pursuit of excitement and enjoyment.
Botond László Kiss +4 more
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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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Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror [PDF]
Psychological Science, 2020 Haunted attractions are illustrative examples of recreational fear in which people voluntarily seek out frightening experiences in pursuit of enjoyment. We present findings from a field study at a haunted-house attraction where visitors between the ages of 12 and 57 years ( N = 110) were equipped with heart rate monitors, video-recorded at peak scare ...
Marc Malmdorf Andersen +5 more
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Exploring Mutilation: Women, Affect, and the Body Horror Genre
[sic], 2022 This paper discusses affect and body horror through the lens of abjection, specifically how we react to viscera and extremes of the body. Body horror’s usage of female protagonists creates a dichotomous space of both feminism and anti-feminism, agency ...
Carina Stopenski
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Why do we watch and like horror films? Despite a century of horror film making and entertainment, little research has examined the human motivation to watch fictional horror and how horror film influences individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional
G. Neil Martin
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The Representation of Women in the Horror Movies: A Study in Selected Horror Movies [PDF]
Communication and Linguistics Studies, 2019 Horror can be defined as an intense and painful fear, dread or dismay. It evokes and elicits such kind of emotions in the reader, when rendered in television or cinema. It is a literary genre, which is intended to terrify its readers by calling to mind the feelings of terror and horror.
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Playing with Fear: The Aesthetics of Horror in Recent Indie Games
Eludamos, 2020 This article explores the aesthetics of horror that recent indie games offer to their players. Following a general discussion of how the audiovisual, ludic, and narrative aesthetics of indie games relate to the fiction emotions, gameplay emotions, and ...
Jan-Noel Thon
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La mujer kafkiana y su doble monstruoso en el gótico andino: Análisis del cuento “Las Voladoras”, de Mónica Ojeda [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2023 Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, 1988) is an Ecuadorian writer whose literature is linked to the horror in its multiple forms. Furthermore, Las Voladoras (2020), included Ojeda in a new literary genre called Andean Gothic, a category where horror and Latin ...
Leira Araújo-Nieto
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Desplazamientos. Una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de escuchar el horror
Kamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2013 Resumen: Las relaciones que existen entre la poesía y la representación del fenómeno de la Shoah han sido ampliamente estudiadas por la filosofía y los estudios literarios, interesados en todo lo que concierne a la memoria y al recuerdo del horror.
Noemí Acedo Alonso
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