Horror Film
Asian Horror: The Factors Driving Thai And Japanese Horror Film Industry: An Analysis Towards Ringu (1998) And Shutter (2004)
... present horror as a combination of natural and supernatural ...(2011), horror films in Asia also act as representations of the local citizens‟ anxieties about the undesirable shifts their countries were ...
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The Uncanny in Japanese and American Horror Film: Hideo Nakata's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's Ring
... In horror film, the abject is closely connected with the uncanny. It is “a massive and sudden emergence of uncanniness, which, familiar as it might have been in an opaque and forgotten life, now harries ...
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Sexuality, Gender, and Politics in the Contemporary Horror Film LCC 3256: Major Filmmakers / LCC 3252: Film and Television Summer 2008
... the film a rating, a number of stars between one and ...the film is one of the best horror films you have ever seen or would expect to see; one star suggests it is one of the ...the film and ...
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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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Murder Music: Horror Film Soundtracks Throughout History
... body horror film Videodrome is a prime example of this kind of ...this film, and as was typical of the time, did so using a ...the film, only the live strings are audible ( Videodrome ...
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The children's horror film : beneficial fear and subversive pleasure in an (im)possible Hollywood subgenre
... the film places a strange amount of emphasis on female virginity is significant, especially as virginity has historically been more highly valued in women than in men with regards to their eligibility for ...
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The children's horror film : characterizing an 'impossible' subgenre
... and horror might be key attractions and elements of horror for children, some children’s horror films operate principally on a subtler form of horror where what is most frightening or ...
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The audio Uncanny Valley: Sound, fear and the horror game
... classifying horror and thriller films by their audio content, analyzed the frequency of sound energy and affect events (these latter are an intentional emotional inflexion of the events visually ...classify ...
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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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Body horror movies : Their emergence and evolution
... body-horror film as I have outlined it taking Franju’s Les Yeux sans Visage as its base reference point, but inverting it so that in this case the narrative involves a face without eyes and not eyes without ...
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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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Survival horror games - an uncanny modality
... of film graphics. Another important difference between the survival horror game genre and the horror film genre is that there are rarely any close-ups of characters' faces during ...
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Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games
... of film graphics. Another important difference between the survival horror game genre and the horror film genre is that there are rarely any close-ups of characters’ faces during ...
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What do we do with vacant space in horror films?
... any film about Venice but a horror film and not an arty classic, such as Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg 1973), but a fairly typical example of the low-genre productions that emerged from Italy in the ...
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Article The Horror of the Anthropocene
... the horror film to build some of its most powerful ...as horror, or not. In ‘But is it Horror? A Criti- cal Re-Examination of Genre in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road’, Nicholas Kaufmann summarises ...
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Yuletide terror: Christmas horror on film and television Indiegogo campaign
... Christmas film’ that would premiere on the BBC on Christmas Day afternoon (always after the Queen’s speech and Christmas Top of the Pops) was incredibly ...The film would be something never shown on TV ...
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Professor Nobody's little lectures on Thomas Ligotti's supernatural horror
... embraced horror, as Jean Lorrain, the ether-addict, malicious gossip, and corruptor of young men did in his short, Gothic tinged cruel tales of the 1890s and as Huysmans did in his black magic thriller, Là-Bas ...
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Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: Season Three
... time disruptions only took place when in the Lodges, with those who enter the Lodges feeling as though they are only gone hours, but learning upon their return that they were missing for days. In the Season Two finale ...
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Something Wyrd: Folk Horror, Folklore and British Television
... Returning to Children of the Stones as a TV example, it is seen by a number of folk-horror fans and revivalists as their touchstone, as peculiarly British, drawing on ancient customs and beliefs (and as I ...
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Horror, dread, awe and disgust: revisiting Durkheim and place
... 10 symbolises horror, dread and in some cases death. Using empirical evidence from secondary data on ritual discourse at Gallipoli, it was shown through Hertz’s (1960[1909]) discussion that both the pure and ...
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