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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Southern Film"”.
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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 in both …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
Southern noir conjoins the two seemingly antithetical words in a telling fashion. The word noir conjures images of cheap films about detectives, criminals, and luckless men scurrying across a city at night with expressionistic shadows and light play, a foreboding sense of doom, and deadly seductive …
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
… genre: the white degenerate redneck, the Voodoo film, the natural horror film, and the post-modern horror parody. Using the theories of Giorgio Agamben and Julia Kristeva as a foundation, the study also tries to evaluate the processes by which the South is constructed as the nation's monstrous …