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Making Erotic Thrillers: Labour, Power and Time in the Italian Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
Using the example of the Italian film industry of the 1960s and 1970s and, in particular, popular erotic thriller cycles, the article focuses on different types of time periods closely associated with film production: the shooting stage and the phase of ...
Andreas Ehrenreich
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This essay analyzes the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante, in order to question the representational and affective function of monstrosity in genre cinema, asking, in particular, how it recruits Indigenous epistemology to ...
Marena Fleites Lear
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The emergence of digital platforms of games marketed as “Lovecraftian” raises a question that has not yet been systematically addressed in academic discourse: how does a game that truly immerses the player in the world of Lovecraftian horror differ from ...
Andrii Isakov
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Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and 1980s and shaped by new filmmaking
Paweł Baran
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Monsters have always enjoyed a significant presence in the human imagination, and religion was instrumental in replacing the physical horror they engendered with that of a moral threat.
Bill Phillips, Marlene Mendoza
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THE GENDER ASPECT OF THE HORROR IN SWISS CINEMA OF THE 1980S.
The focus of this article is on the phenomenon of the horror, in particular the gender aspect in Swiss horror films of the early 1980s. Initially, it points to the important role of research on the phenomenon of the horror in philosophy and psychology ...
Uliana Abashnik
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A Critical Study of Stephen King and Horror Fiction
This present research undertakes the extensive study of horror fiction genre with reference to the select novels of one of the finest and celebrated horror fiction writers of all time, Stephen King. This paper is a substantial assessment of the select horror fiction of King. The research problem revolves extensively around the word fear.
Nikam, Dr. Sudhir V. +1 more
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THE HORRORS OF : a physical study in horror and abjection.
This essay contains a discussion of my influences for making the choreographic work The Horrors of:, which was the practical part of an examination for the degree work of the bachelor’s Programme in Dance Performance at Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola in the fall of 2022. The horrors of: is an exploration of women in horror and the potentiality of the
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METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTIONS OF HORROR IN THE NOVEL DRACULA [PDF]
This paper is based on earlier studies in the area of conceptual metaphor analysis and cognitive linguistics, pointing out the metaphor as one of the most important rhetorical figures in the literary work.
Milea Ajduk Kurtović
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Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature
Evolutionary horror study is an emerging research field that uses as its theoretical foundation the sciences of human nature. Evolutionary horror scholars claim that we can understand horror fiction as a cultural technology that works by tapping into ancient, defensive psychological mechanisms to satisfy an adaptive appetite for vicarious experience ...
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