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Showing 1 to 20 of 324 for “"Horror."”.
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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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The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
… these cases of crosscultural interpretations of horror to (1) shed light on the way Hollywood functions and markets in a global postliterate environment, (2) exemplify and illuminate the inner workings of the Hollywood movie development process, (3) demonstrate cross-cultural interpretations and …
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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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Two Short Horror Screenplays
Screenplays.
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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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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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Acting Out: The Pleasures of Performance Horror
horror genre has always been a subject of fascination, both in popular culture and in academia, and its manifestations continue to inspire monographs and papers. These studies, however, often focus only on books and movies, whilst the genre encompasses much more: art, music, theatre and games, …
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What Joy from Misery: the Pleasures of Horror
… the allure of narrative genres, such as horror, that have historically been viewed as philosophically (and often morally) problematic owing to their negative content and the painful emotional responses they elicit. It departs from the majority of classical and contemporary solutions to …
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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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Gothic Horror and Scientific Education in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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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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Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel
… between contemporary works of autofiction and horror. I contend that both respective categories exhibit a parodic relationship to their own genres, and I situate this argument within tentative designations that I call Digital Autofiction and Weird Horror. Parody here is re-contextualized in the …
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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
… of 1968 and 1977 Spain experienced a boom in horror movie production that rivaled other sectors of production and yielded impressive statistics. This work canonizes these films in relation to their historical genesis, aesthetic characteristics and their social reception.</p>
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A sanguinary economy and aesthetics: the pulse in horror cinema
… pulse "exposed" through the spilling of blood in horror cinema, which exemplifies a cinema of expenditures. Such expenditures transform subjectivity into the operations of a sovereign spectatorship. It is in experiencing horror film that the pulse is most potent, for it is within such films that …
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in 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 in both genres – manifesting as a desire to both return to and escape …
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Monstrous bodies: femininity and agency in Young Adult horror fiction
Young Adult horror fiction with female protagonists presents sympathetically the untenable situation of adolescent girls within society whereby they are increasingly pressured to embody a doll-like feminine ideal that deprives them of voice and agency. In Young Adult horror fiction, the monstrous …
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