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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"body horror"”.
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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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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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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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Blazing Worlds
… the fantastic. Through heightened technology, body horror, or blurred metaphysical boundaries, the residents of these blazing worlds pursue knowledge of their place in life and fight to establish and maintain their identities.</p>
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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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SOME OF US ARE STARING AT THE STARS: SPECULATIVE FICTION, FANDOM, AND TRANS IMAGINATION
… an examination of the ways the genre of “body horror” in film and television has been used as a tool for processing and dealing with experiences of body dysphoria, and an analysis of the trans world building possibilities in Blue Delliquanti’s Oh Human Star and Gretchen Felker-Martin’s …
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Everyone to the Front
… performance art with an emphasis on feminist body horror. Believing artists, or in this case “art enthusiasts,” to be morally and intellectually superior, Layne does not question the potential harm in exposing her students to violent spectacles, both real and simulated, that dominate modern …
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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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The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer
… as the play opens. It should be noted that the horror film genre has greatly affected my thinking about this project, and I will be discussing three sub-genres of horror at some length: body horror, the slasher film, and race horror. The horror films and trends to be discussed come, in the main, …
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CRAFTING THE FEVER
… in the unconscious uncanny, the feminine body within the context of horror, and lyrical poems about living in working class communities in San Bernardino. The collection attempts to subvert the presentation of the female body in Horror genres, moving it from a position of victimization to …