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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"werewolf"”.
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The Werewolf: Past and Future
… guardians, and knights. The robust legacy of the werewolf spans from prehistory, through ancient Greece and Rome, to the Middle Ages, into the Early Modern period, and finally into present-day popular culture. Over the ages, the view of the werewolf has become distorted. Media treatment of …
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The Rage of the Wolf: Metamorphosis and Identity in Medieval Werewolf Tales.
… world. Each of these tales is told from the werewolf's point of view, and in each the wolf undergoes a fury or madness where he cannot seem to help turning savage and harming people. This 'rage of the wolf' lies at the root of the identities of these werewolves, reflecting the conflict …
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Werewolves: A Three-Dimensional Content Analysis of Films from 1980-2014
… portrayed as “other”, but more recently the werewolf has appeared in media as more sympathetic (Brannon 2016, 21; Gilmore 2008, 362; Hughes 2009, 97). Limited research has systematically studied how werewolves are represented in the media. This content analysis focuses on how major werewolf …
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WEREWOLVES: THE OUTSIDER ON THE INSIDE IN ICELANDIC AND FRENCH MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The contemporary viewpoint of the werewolf is mostly dominated by a horrific image of a misshapen beast that must be slain. This narrow view of the Monster as always Monstrous is incorrect. The werewolf was never meant to be an irredeemable thing and to distance ourselves from it as an audience is …
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Bending and breaking the boundary between horror and comedy: an exploration of the existentialist function of the abject in the works of John Landis and Woody Allen
… of two horror-comedies: John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Woody Allen’s Shadows and Fog (1991). Chapter Three explores Allen’s Alice (1990) and Deconstructing Harry (1997) to posit a potential method for future creations of horror-comedies. Keywords: existentialism, religious …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
… the false prophet, the Pied Piper and the werewolf. Surrealism, with its roots in psychoanalysis, underscores the play’s visual aesthetic: this stage is littered with fearful, surgically invasive and aggressively sexual forms, objects and images. The exegesis, Monsters, Pipers, Families and …
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Stigma Isn’t All Bad: How Storytelling and Monster Metaphors in Anita Blake Challenge Existing Notions of Health-Related Stigma and Generate Productive Stigma Outcomes
… ‘monsters’ such as the vampire and the werewolf can act as a vehicle for understanding that disease does not equal death. Using the vampires and werewolves of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series as a case study, this research explored the role of monster metaphors and storytelling in …
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Hostes deum: Magic in the literature of the Neronian period
This study examines magical discourse in the Neronian literature and, more specifically, its role in the works of the three major authors of the period, namely, Petronius, Seneca, and Lucan. It endeavors to trace possible echoes of popular beliefs about magic and real witchcraft practices of the …