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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Horror Cinema"”.
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Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema
… “Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women’s Horror Cinema,” responds to early considerations in feminist horror studies via the recent surge of horror films directed by women filmmakers for a primarily female audience. Placing this new wave of horror cinema in dialogue with the canonical …
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A sanguinary economy and aesthetics: the pulse in horror cinema
… Possession (1981) to find the pulse in cinema. It acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" rather than "perceived," yet argues that the pulse has a wider-reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to the image. My aim is to establish the terms …
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The malady lingers on : the abject and contemporary Asian horror cinema
… as elaborated in Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror and other relevant works (particularly, the establishment of “symbolic” and “semiotic” realms), with contemporary Asian horror cinema, in order to construct a detailed and effective framework for the application of abjection theory within …
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Nightmares from the Past: 'Kaiki eiga' and the Dawn of Japanese Horror Cinema
While the global popularity of Japanese horror movies of the past twenty years such as Ring (Ringu, 1998) and Ju-on: The Grudge (Ju-on, 2002) has made these films the subject of much academic attention, the previous nine decades of popular Japanese horror cinema remain an understudied area of film …
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Female Transcendence: Approaching the "Experiénce Extrême" in Contemporary French Horror Cinema
The horror genre has not historically been popular amongst critics, scholars, and feminist writers, and is often criticized for sensationalizing physical and sexual violence. Building off the preexisting literature on the problematic representation of gender in horror, this thesis looks at New …
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Realism, Fantasy, and the ‘H’ Certificate: Rethinking Horror Cinema in Britain during the 1940s
Existing research on British cinema during the 1940s has often assumed an opposition between realism and fantasy or, as it is also known, 'realism and tinsel'. However, through an analysis of contemporary critical reception and censorship discourses, it becomes apparent how this division was …
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Representations of the Catholic Church in horror cinema: Demonology and exorcism in The Conjuring films
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan katolisen kirkon representaatiota osana Kirottu-elokuvia, etenkin demonologian ja eksorsismin kautta. Tutkimuskysymys onkin: Miten katolista kirkkoa representoidaan osana Kirottu-elokuvia? Katolisen kirkon representaatiota populaarikulttuurissa, etenkin kauhuelokuvissa, …
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Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era
… patriarchal unconscious underlying the Korean horror genre through a critical feminist psychoanalytical reading of the family dynamics and female agency in three landmark texts, namely, The Public Cemetery under the Moon (Kwon, Chul-hwi, 1967), Mother's Han (Lee, Yusup, 1970) and Woman's Wail …
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Cine Fantástico Y De Terror De Directoras Españolas: Una Mirada Empática
… Spanish women filmmakers to fantasy and horror cinema from a gender and affective perspective. Through the study of six feature films directed by Elena López Riera, Carlota Pereda, Ana Asensio, Ángeles Huerta, Andrea Jaurrieta, and Ainhoa Rodríguez, released between 2017 and 2022, the …
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
… in the construction of the South in American horror cinema. Particular attention is paid to the influence that images of the civil rights movement have had on the development and evolution of the South as a horrific and terrifying space for the rest of the nation. It focuses on four main …
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I testi della paura e dell'incubo
… represent the backbone of the industry, and horror films, even though not the majority in numeric terms, become a significant section of the Italian production; Italian horror films establish and define new trends for the genre, largely imitated and admired. The thesis analyzes and discusses …
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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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Sounds without Borders: Industry, Society and the Voice in Giallo Cinema
… the Crystal Plumage (1970) uses the model of the cinematic voice-over to explore the subjective experience of urban space in post-war Italy. The film suggests that by 1970 the ability to vocally ‘narrate’ and thus control space had become a fundamental assumption of the modern, cosmopolitan …