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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Horror film"”.
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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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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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Sex, sadism and spain: the spanish horror film, 1968-1977
<p>This project explores how a group of films produced, distributed and exhibited under the crumbling dictatorship of Francisco Franco's Spain can potentially lead us to a better understanding of the political, social and cultural conditions during this contentious period in Spain's long history. …
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Black Horror Film and the Role of Mood in Race Perception
… resist this hegemonic view by arguing that black horror films generate a particular, politically-valuable aesthetic experience. Specifically, they allow us to experience blackness and black people as unintelligible. This, I argue, runs counter to everyday experience of blackness; when blackness …
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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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Logging into Horror’s Closet: Gay Fans, the Horror Film and Online Culture
… Harry Benshoff has boldly proclaimed that ‘horror stories and monster movies, perhaps more than any other genre, actively invoke queer readings’ (1997, p. 6). For Benshoff, gay audiences have forged cultural identifications with the counter-hegemonic figure of the ‘monster queer’ who …
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An investigation of priming, self-consciousness, and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film
… 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 concept of the …
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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre
… exorcism has spiked in real world and fictional filmic contexts, scholars have yet to fully identify the exorcism film as a subgenre of the horror film. Following Anne Rothe’s (2011) argument that representation of trauma in popular culture may function like “a discursive knot in contemporary …
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Sound and Image: Experimental Music and the Popular Horror Film (1960 to the present day)
… context - experimental music and the popular horror film, from 1960 to the present day. The study responds to a significant gap in the literature that requires sustained and in-depth academic attention. Despite recent expansion, the field of film music studies has yet to deal with alternative …
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The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer
As my thesis, I have made an adaptation for film of Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The play tells the story of a young woman, Catharine Holly, who has been institutionalized shortly after her return to New Orleans from a vacation on the island of Cabeza de Lobo. Her cousin, Sebastian, …
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Reel women: gender stereotypes in film
<p>Horror films portray female characters as sexual, helpless victims. When horror films attempt to portray female characters as the hero, this sends a message to audiences that women can be strong and independent. An experiment was conducted to test an audience's perceptions gender stereotypes of …
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Body-horror movies : Their emergence and evolution.
The subject of this thesis is the body-horror film, considered as a cycle which emerged in the early 1970s and which lasted until the late 1980s when it went into decline. It begins with a discussion of the body-horror film, what it is and how it can be distinguished from other kinds of film …
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(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films
… 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 of this project …
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Genre, gender, giallo: the disturbed dreams of Dario Argento
This thesis presents an examination of the giallo films of Dario Argento from his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to The Stendhal Syndrome' (1996). In opposition to the dominant psychoanalytical approaches to the horror film generally and Argento's giallo specifically, …
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Elementi postmoderni nell'horror americano contemporaneo. Forme testuali e culturali della mutazione 1968-1998
… 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 re-mediation …
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A Decade in Dissolve: Body Horror, Special Effects and Industrial Authorship, 1979 – 1989
… science-fiction, fantasy, and 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 …
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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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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is a short horror film that tells the story of Gavin and his encounters with supernatural energies after he moves to a new room. In the end, the story reveals that his roommate is the initiator. The movie draws inspiration from a variety of classic horror films, with an emphasis on …
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J-Horror : A discourse in cross-cultural communication and cinematic hybridity
Film visually communicates the idea of culture, leaving interpretation open to an impressionable audience. Though a genre's recognizable iconography can transcend boundaries, understanding a film's intended message still requires a certain amount of foreknowledge. J-Horror, the common term for …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
The horror film genre utilizes spectacles of the human body while alluding to our worst fears beyond the silver screen. "Body horror" is a unique sub-genre that distorts the very nature of human flesh for horrific effect. David Cronenberg's <italic>Videodrome</italic> (1983) is an exemplary body …
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