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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Horror films"”.
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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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Body horror revisited: a new wave of body horror films directed by women
This thesis examines a selection of recent horror films directed by women that seek to explore and challenge the conventions of the genre. Making reference to the existing critical writing on the genre, and in particular its representation of gender and the body, each filmmaker's employment of …
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Social anxieties and lost “spirit”: The relationship of horror films and their remakes from Japan, South Korea, and the United States
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Terror and everyday life: A history of horror
… 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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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
… the transitional period between silent films and fully-scored sound films. Connecting the history between producers, directors, and composers reveals how and why film scoring became an accepted practice by the mid-1930s while shedding light on the commonly-overlooked composers whose …
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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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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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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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I testi della paura e dell'incubo
… growth that lasted almost twenty years. Genre films 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 …
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Voodoo Love
… classic Motown style meets the world of campy horror films. Voodoo Love is also the first local jazz video to be produced in high-definition video. It includes appearances by Lischelle Brown, Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Alfred Doucette, blues player Big Al Carson and the singing trio Mahogany …
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Picnic in the abattoir
… include pop cultural products (particularly horror films), violence against women and its depiction in media, viewership and the gaze, etc. The collection is structured in three sections, or "Acts", supplemented with a "Postscript". This structure is intended to mimic, but ultimately subvert, …
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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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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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The Mother-Daughter Dyad as Modernized Archetypal Mythology in The Last House On The Left and Carrie
… and Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma, USA) – two horror films from the 1970s – in terms of Carl Jung’s concepts of the collective unconscious, the shadow, the feeling function, the dual nature of the mother archetype, and specifically, its constellation as the negative mother complex of the …
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Transnational Film Practices: Hollywood Remakes of South Korean Films and Preference on Genre Films
… remakes of South Korean male melodramas and horror films to address transnational film practices within the context of the sudden acceptance of South Korean films in Hollywood. Such acceptance began with the 2006 remake, The Lake House . Despite the small number of South Korean films being …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in popular horror films.</p><p>This paper utilizes Creed's work on the monstrous-feminine to discuss two abject figures in …
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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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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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