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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Horror Genre"”.
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… establishes the groundwork for a new genre of 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 …
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Mental [In]Stability: Isolation and Hallucination in the Horror Genre
<p>This thesis is a critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and <em>The Shining</em> by Stephen King. Mental [in]stability is defined and then used to describe how the protagonist in these stories moves from a place of realism, to a world where they no longer understand their …
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(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films
<p>This project seeks to define the subgenre of children's animated horror film by examining its classification within the children's film genre and its use of generic conventions of horror. While this project does not aim to conflate children's film as a genre and animation as a medium, the scope …
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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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The Real Blurred Lines: On Liminality in Horror and the Threatened Boundary Between the Real and the Imagined
The horror genre is obsessed with being treated as fact rather than fiction. From movies that plaster their title screens with "Based on actual events" to urban legends that happened to a friend of a friend, the horror genre thrives on being treated as fact even when it is more often fiction. Yet …
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Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
This study will explore the rise of horror drama on US television, investigating the significance of this trend of horror programming to both the US television industry and the understanding and acceptability of the horror genre as a whole. The first section will account for this increase in horror …
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Exploring Fear and Freud's The Uncanny
… in relation to literature, both a staple of the horror genre as well as a device in literary works, as well as in my own writings. In addition, I will use Sigmund Freud's theory of the “uncanny” as a possible device to examine the complexities of fear and its effects both on the mind and body …
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Eden Creek
… chapters of a fictional drama and supernatural horror following the story of a protagonist, August, as she reconnects with an old friend and explores the town of Eden Creek. The chapters exhibited focus primarily on dialogue, world-building, and characterization of the two main characters, …
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Deivisceris
… tabletop game that focuses on themes of horror. It looks into ideas from the horror genre as a whole while combining aspects from the body horror and cosmic horror subgenres to create a discomforting horror experience. The game features illustrations and written events with a choice-based …
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Magic to manic : the evolution of the zombie figure In fiction and its basis In moral panic dissemination
… to the sociological and film studies of the genre. The value of the Zombie literary figure is examined as an example of cultural discourse using Bourdieu s field of cultural exchange framework. A cultural studies approach is used to identify the value of examination of the relationship …
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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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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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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
… 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 Amityville Horror (2005), I …
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Violence, Paratexts, and Fandoms: The Walking Dead as a Societal Mirror
… Focusing on paratexts, fandoms, and the violence/horror genre as the theoretical framework, the project highlights fans role in the contemporary age of television and provides insight into how much violence and gore is acceptable for fans of the genre. This project also highlights how the premiere …
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Zombified and Traumatized: Healing in Black Women's Zombie Literature
… that define their American experience within the horror genre. Through their explorations of race relations in an imaginative and boundless sphere, they provide a portrayal of reality that transcends time. Yet, scholars have overlooked horror by Black women writers and failed to bring them into …
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“How do natural childhood fears affect the overall experience of video gaming?”
The gaming industry, particularly the horror genre, has grown in popularity, especially among adult players. This study explores how horror game design draws from childhood fears, a gap in current research. It examines how childhood fears influence horror game experiences, players' relation to …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… Barbara Creed, are two themes found across the horror genre, and they are applied to the contemporary narratives to demonstrate how once harmful ideologies may be subverted to reposition power and deconstruct oppressive hegemonic structures such as white supremacy and the patriarchy. The last …
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The vampire inside my camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video
… and queer worlds. This is pinpointed in the horror genre of film and various contemporary artforms that displace linearity. Gem's photography and video art portrays them as the monstrous vampire character, positioning their project as specific to them and their orientation to the world. Using …
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Vampires in Literature
Monsters are a big part of the horror genre whose main purpose is to invoke fear in its reader. Horror gives the reader the chance to escape from his everyday life, into the world of excitement and fantasy, and experience the relief which follows when the horror has ended. Vampires belong to the …
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A Decade in Dissolve: Body Horror, Special Effects and Industrial Authorship, 1979 – 1989
… action blockbuster films. It has overlooked the horror genre and the creative labour of special effects artists during the practical effects boom of the 1970s and 1980s. This thesis corrects that omission by examining how special effects are used in nine American and Canadian body horror films …
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