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American Horror Film

The Uncanny in Japanese and American Horror Film:  Hideo Nakata's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's Ring

The Uncanny in Japanese and American Horror Film: Hideo Nakata's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's Ring

... In Ring, however, Verbinski creates continual, tangible visual allusions to the videotape. The videotape’s imagery reoccurs throughout the film, external to the tape and external to Rachel. Rachel sees the ...

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Death, disintegration of the body and subjectivity in the contemporary horror film

Death, disintegration of the body and subjectivity in the contemporary horror film

... SUMMARY This thesis is an attempt to account for the contemporary American horror film's increased reliance upon images of bodily dismemberment and decay.At the core of this exploration [r] ...

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Green Horror: The Use of Environmental Themes in Modern American Horror Cinema

Green Horror: The Use of Environmental Themes in Modern American Horror Cinema

... of horror used for this study comes from an understanding of modern America cinematic horror to largely be defined by the threat or showing of explicit and extreme violence done to the human body (Hantke, ...

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Horror in Euripides' Hecuba and Heracles

Horror in Euripides' Hecuba and Heracles

... The juxtaposition of the ghosts of Polydorus and Achilles, then, reveals two horrific elements found in the Hecuba. The first of these is the subversion of the traditional Greek conceptions of ghostly activity. ...

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American Perceptions of Sicily as a Tourist Destination as Experienced Through Film

American Perceptions of Sicily as a Tourist Destination as Experienced Through Film

... I believe two things are happening here. The first is that, compared to the first three films, women have a weak presence in this clip and men are definitely the protagonists. Apollonia, played by Simonetta Stefanelli, ...

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Reel Indians: Native American Representation in Film, 1950-1970

Reel Indians: Native American Representation in Film, 1950-1970

... the film sets the ...the film takes place, it is only when Madden gives a former address as somewhere in ...last film to jumble up ideas and visions of the west. In fact, a film that came out ...

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American Film Course Syllabus Information HUM Credit hours

American Film Course Syllabus Information HUM Credit hours

... American film is an introductory film course designed to demonstrate the full impact of Hollywood filmmaking as an art form, an economic form and a cultural ...Hollywood film style and the ...

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Hollywood\u27s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

Hollywood\u27s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

... Anyone who reads Ted Jojola's powerful indictment of Hollywood (in Chapter One) will real- ize that Native American viewers have been waiting decades for such an autochthonous p[r] ...

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Hoods and Yakuza The Shared Myth of the American and Japanese Gangster Film.

Hoods and Yakuza The Shared Myth of the American and Japanese Gangster Film.

... the film; 34 however, Suzuki is introducing a different facet to the oyabun-kubon relationship by turning the good boss against his favoured protégé, and thus the opposition of good and evil oyabun is played out ...

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Locating American Experience
							
					Cavell’s Paths  to Film and Transcendentalism

Locating American Experience Cavell’s Paths to Film and Transcendentalism

... both film and American tran- scendentalism began to come to fruition during the 1960s, a time when liberal hope and transcendentalism were linked by American artists and ...about film, too, to ...

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The Horror of a Haunted Heart

The Horror of a Haunted Heart

... “For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is[r] ...

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Hollywood's Major Crisis and the American Film "Renaissance"

Hollywood's Major Crisis and the American Film "Renaissance"

... existence, interrupted only occasionally by threats that could always be quickly defused. The enduring appeal of America’s great myth—the reluctant outlaw hero, like Huck or Casablanca’s Rick, who briefly emerged from ...

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                        The Horror of the Anthropocene

Article The Horror of the Anthropocene

... ‘Sighting,’ Clute says, ‘signals the moment when the protagonist (or the narra- tive voice in the story) begins to recognize a Thickening (which is the second stage) in the texture of the world’ (2014: 331). Before ...

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War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film

War in peace : the American Legion and the continuing service of film

... over American national ...using film to define and project a form of “Americanism” that simultaneously challenges the “Bolshevism” and “Un-American” practices attributed to the Hollywood ...through ...

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Ancient. The American Film Institute Conservatory is. Inform 3D ProductionDesign

Ancient. The American Film Institute Conservatory is. Inform 3D ProductionDesign

... for film using form• Z ...for film production design purposes, using classical architecture to illustrate the principles of ...specific film production design conventions and ...

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Body horror movies : Their emergence and evolution

Body horror movies : Their emergence and evolution

... 11 Basket Case is about Siamese twins separated as children. One is ‘normal’ (Duane-an all-American name) and one is ‘abnormal’and deformed (Belial - a name for the Devil, from the Hebrew meaning worthless). Duane ...

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The feminine appeal of British horror cinema

The feminine appeal of British horror cinema

... our horror film ...1960s horror films, if the terror is interior, formed by a woman, taking place inside her mind, it is not usually recognised (or prioritised) as a horror ...

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The Primitive, Technology and Horror: A Posthuman Biology

The Primitive, Technology and Horror: A Posthuman Biology

... seemingly paradoxical concept – a posthuman biology – as a potential theory that focuses on alternative ways to think about life at a time when technology is creating new paradigms of life, as well as investigating and ...

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PP 2009 47: 
  Horror Contradictionis

PP 2009 47: Horror Contradictionis

... But things can be more complicated when agents have different hard information, and in that case, communicating disagreement may actually resolve the conflict in beliefs: Scenario 2: Age[r] ...

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Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom

Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom

... discussing horror literature can be very rewarding for both the teacher and ...in horror focuses on what is universally common to all of us as humans, regardless of the cultural ...

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