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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"urban legends"”.
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Urban Legends: Why Do People Believe Them?
… answers questions about why some people believe urban legends and why these legends continue to thrive in today’s society. Despite displaying the tell-tale signs of an urban legend and the number of websites and other sources available for a quick check of the legitimacy of a legend, new stories …
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Retells and Remakes: Understanding How Horror Urban Legends Change Over Time
This study seeks to understand how horror urban legends undergo changes over time and the possible reasons for their alterations. Past researchers have yet to analyze the shifts that have occurred within the retellings of these dark tales, and through this analysis, light will be shed onto what …
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Fishers of Men
… a present-day medical student, explores the urban legends surrounding the abandoned Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, which handled one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in world history in the 1920s and 30s and is now allegedly among the most haunted places in the …
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Home Sweet Home
… to run. Taiwanese religious elements along with urban legends, are featured prominently in the video as a source of the terror.
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… and patients' accounts, media reporting, urban legends, cinematography, theater, poetry and literature speak of this new biomedical life. The meaning of the cadaver, the brain-dead body, and the living donor are reevaluated. The personhood of suicides, the homeless, the poor, the mentally …
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The Real Blurred Lines: On Liminality in Horror and the Threatened Boundary Between the Real and the Imagined
… title screens with "Based on actual events" to urban legends that happened to a friend of a friend, the horror genre thrives on being treated as fact even when it is more often fiction. Yet horror does more than claim verisimilitude. Whereas some stories are content to pass as reality, other …
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Crime Legends in Old and New Media
… A case study approach was used: three crime legends with a considerable history of public debunking were chosen. These cases were: the market in snuff films, the theft of vital organs for black-market transplant, and the abduction of children from theme park restrooms. Current versions …