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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"horror story"”.
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FOUR STORIES : A STUDY IN GENRE
… was a finalist in a competition, a monster based horror story, a supernatural horror story, and a science fiction tale of initial planetary exploration.
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… selected television shows were Waco and American Horror Story: Cult. Each film and series is given its own analysis. Findings indicate that a common theme of the rigid hierarchy common in media portrayals of cults, with groups consisting of one cult leader on the top with everyone else below, is a …
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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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And she built a crooked house
… my installation originates from a favorite short story I first read in high school. Robert A. Heinlein originally published "-And He Built a Crooked House-" in Astounding Science Fiction in 1941. The tale is about a California architect who designs an efficient structure by building a house in a …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
… one season of the popular anthology, American Horror Story, as heuristic device, this paper intends to trouble the rhetoric of "addiction" and to elucidate its fixity within "long forgotten" theories of "demonic possession". Narratives which horrifically depict "addiction" as demonic tenure, …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… retains a unique place in American literary history as perhaps our most misunderstood artist. Despite his rare talent and mastery of variegated vocabularies, Poe has been stereotyped by reductive twentieth century criticism. Scholarship persistently confines his multi-dimensional genius to the …
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Mexico y la Mexicanidad: Aura, donde confluyen el mito y la historia
When history commits, there can be harmony between the official historical discourse and the mythical discourse. In the case of México, the mythical usually exceeds discursive borders to prevail and report from a fictitious world, the official story. That is why Mexican history is ambiguous and …
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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 …