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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"thriller films"”.

  1. A cognitive poetics of the threat scene: How movies scare us

    "This dissertation analyzes horror and thriller films in light of contemporary cognitive psychology and film theory in order to understand how they inspire fear, startle, and disgust in spectators. Films like Cat People, John Carpenter's Halloween, and Ridley Scott's Alien contain what I term …

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  2. Family Pictures: Representations of the Family in Contemporary Korean Cinema

    … to provide such a work, bringing together films on the family and writings on them in both Western and Korean scholarships, as well as filling the gaps where certain trends and patterns have gone undetected. How are the changes in the understanding of the family or in the roles of …

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