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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Contemporary Horror"”.
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The contemporary horror film
This thesis approaches the contemporary horror film from a number of directions. Firstly, it is considered in relation to the historical roots of horror fiction, the tradition of the literary Gothic which stretches back as far as the late eighteenth century. The same chapter elaborates the broad …
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Screaming in silence: exploring gender empowerment & representation in contemporary horror narratives
<p>Traditionally, the horror genre has been associated with the objectification and victimization of women, portraying them as helpless and disposable. However, in recent years, there has been a significant shift in the portrayal of female characters in horror media, leading to the emergence of …
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Terror and everyday life: A history of horror
… aims to locate the power and popularity of contemporary horror films in terms of a response to post-modernity. Present-day horror films only make sense, can only be enjoyed, when read as spectacularly excessive productions overtly concerned with the everyday experience of post-modernity.
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An investigation of priming, self-consciousness, and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film
… camera technique has become so popular to both contemporary horror filmmakers and audiences. In order to answer this question, this thesis adopts a mainly cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental schemata and processes that are elicited and triggered by these films. The …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… to apprehend the workings of post-millennial horror. Through a sustained exploration of how affect theory may be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of recent films such as Saw (James Wan, 2004) and Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005). I also explore …
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An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
Horror fiction acts as a reflection of social crises and can therefore be utilized within sociological research to understand sociocultural change. As contemporary horror fiction writer Stephen King (1981/2010) suggests “we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” (13). Hence, the …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… reshaped by each new representation. <br/>In contemporary horror comics, The Walking Dead series is not just commercially successful, it exploits properties of the medium (including panel arrangement, transitions, repetition, and the liminal space within the gutter) to thoroughly explore the …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with two contemporary adaptations Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele and Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos. The original 1818 Frankenstein text is composed of different discourses about race, gender, monstrosity, and what it means to be an abject other. As …