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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American horror"”.
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Re-animated: The contemporary American horror film remake, 2003-2013
This doctoral thesis is a study of American horror remakes produced in the years 2003-2013, and it represents a significant academic intervention into an understanding of the horror remaking trend. It addresses the remaking process as one of adaptation, examines the remakes as texts in their own …
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
… horrific? For well over half of a century, the American South has functioned as a site for national anxieties over race and modernization. This study uses an inter-disciplinary approach in order to understand the various forces involved in the construction of the South in American horror cinema. …
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Mystery of the Wax Museum: An Original Film Score for Orchestra and an Analysis Outlining the Evolution of Film Music Through American Horror Films of the Early 1930s
… practices with techniques commonly used in horror films of the 1930s. An accompanying analysis of the score will explain the purpose of each cue and how it functions to appropriately enhance the already-completed film. </p> <p>Keywords: </p> <p>Film, Music, Horror, Universal Monsters, …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… The selected television shows were Waco and American Horror Story: Cult. Each film and series is given its own analysis. Findings indicate that a common theme of the rigid hierarchy common in media portrayals of cults, with groups consisting of one cult leader on the top with everyone else …
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… – a hybrid genre that I call Southern maternal horror. By integrating key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence found in both genres – manifesting as a desire to both return to and escape …
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Elementi postmoderni nell'horror americano contemporaneo. Forme testuali e culturali della mutazione 1968-1998
… an analysis of textual and cultural forms in the American horror film (1968- 1998), by defining the so-called postmodern characters. The “postmodern” term will not mean a period of the history of cinema, but a series of forms and strategies recognizable in many American films. From a bipolar …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
… By taking one season of the popular anthology, American Horror Story, as heuristic device, this paper intends to trouble the rhetoric of "addiction" and to elucidate its fixity within "long forgotten" theories of "demonic possession". Narratives which horrifically depict "addiction" as demonic …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… supplies compelling new ways of rereading the horror genre. In addition to providing an outlet for grief, anxiety, and violence in their various forms, horror media can now be read as a preemptive measure in an effort to mediate the immediate and long-term effects of the trauma and horror faced …
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Genre, gender, giallo: the disturbed dreams of Dario Argento
… the dominant psychoanalytical approaches to the horror film generally and Argento's giallo specifically, this thesis argues that the giallo, both textually and meta-textually, actively resists oedipalisation. Taking up from Deleuze's contention in Cinema 1: The Movement Image that the …
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Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster
<p>The trans-coded monster, which arose from the spectacle of real-life serial killer Ed Gein’s murderous and taxidermic hobbies and the “gay-panic” spun from the headlines of the Leopold and Loeb slaying, the monster serves as a functionary of social control on two levels. First, the societal …
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
This thesis explores depictions of suffering in American haunted house horror films and considers how hauntings can draw attention to systems of power and violence in our real world. Through textual analysis of The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), THIR13EN Ghosts (2001), and The …
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Introduction to magic & thaumaturgy
This thesis consists of six pieces of short speculative fiction, along with a short craft essay titled, “Affect and Interiority: Tools of Characterization in Speculative Fiction.” The short stories are rooted within an individual character’s encounter with the spectacular, specifically focusing on …