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Dis/Possessing the Polish Past in Marcin Wrona’s Demon

Humanities, 2020
The article examines how Marcin Wrona’s Demon (2015) reworks the Jewish myth of a dybbuk in order to discuss how and to what extent a spectral haunting may disrupt acts of collective forgetting, which are in turn fueled by repression, repudiation, and ...
Agnieszka Kotwasińska
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Is a Metamodern Horror Film Possible?

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article examines the applicability of metamodernism as a theoretical framework for the analysis of contemporary horror cinema. It remains unclear whether metamodernism possesses sufficient analytical rigor for interpreting horror films or whether it
Denis D. Chumakov
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"Pretend we're dead," by Annalee Newitz

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010
Annalee Newitz. Pretend we're dead: Capitalist monsters in American pop culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, paperback, $22.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0822337454.
Christopher M. Moreman
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The Blair Witch Project: Metatextual Layers of Subverting the Female Gaze

CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023
While recent scholarship has discussed the gendered subject/object relations within The Blair Witch Project and Heather’s victimization by the male gaze of the horror-genre’s camera, my work rebuts and clarifies the level through which this ...
Emily Moeck
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Documenting Horror: The Use of Sound in Non-Fiction 9/11 Films

Altre Modernità, 2011
While conventional 9/11 documentaries focus on the most known and visible images of the attack, three films that work against this tendency, 9/11 (2002), 11'09''01 - September 11 (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), avoid the television news coverage of
Jesse Schlotterbeck
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"Since the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game": Black horror podcasters as fans, critics, and creators

Transformative Works and Cultures
Black horror is often investigated within film and television studies, but there is a lack of further inquiry into how Black horror exists within fandom, audience, and podcast studies.
Mel Monier, Kristen Leer
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Crystal Lake : un territoire horrifique, étude géographique de la saga Vendredi 13

Géographie et Cultures, 2018
Even if many geographical studies about cinema are recently published, the subject of horror movies – and even more mainstream horror movies – haven’t been tackle yet.
Milena Gobet‑Di Maggio
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An Invitation to Reflection about Horror: A Review of Genre Updates

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article reviews A.V. Pavlov's book “Horror Studies: Genre Updates in the 21st Century”, which examines the historiography of horror studies in cinema.
Sophia V. Yakimova
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Allegorical representation of Kuntilanak in Rizal Mantovani’s films

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This article examines the allegorical representation of the mythical ghost kuntilanak in Rizal Mantovani’s films on kuntilanak. Kuntilanak narrative can be found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. This representation is then interpreted as a cultural
Anton Sutandio
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RENDERING LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IMAGE IN CLASSICAL HORROR FICTION [PDF]

Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The article sheds light upon the problem of rendering English horror literature genre peculiarities into Ukrainian within the scope of translation studies not only in Europe but all over the world.
Artur G. Gudmanian, Andriana O. Ivanova
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