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Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of Warfare Obsession and Sonic Violence
This article discusses how warfare ranks high amongst the themes that the heavy metal genre most frequently relies on for lyrical and visual inspiration
Black Metal and the Aesthetics of Pure Evil
The soundtrack of Harmony Korine’s feature film ‘Gummo’, 1998, featured music by Scandinavian black metal bands, including Burzum and Bathory
An Exploration of Death Metal Scenes and Sounds
Death metal is widely regarded as one of the most aggressive, technical, and visceral forms of music
Heavy Metal Appropriations of Classical Virtuosity
From the very beginnings of heavy metal in the late 1960s, guitar players had experimented with the musical materials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European composers
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07. Exhibitions
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Art exhibitions and other Performances
Cali Presents the Pictorial Exhibition ‘Ritual Macabro al Daimonismo’
The ritualistic inauguration will take place in Cali, after 40 years since the first time horror and fantastic creature were introduced in the art of this Colombian city
Contemporary Gothic: The Grotesque and Artificial Corpses
Gothic grotesque has become so pervasive precisely because it is so apposite to the representation of contemporary concerns.
John Martin and the Promethean Theatre of Subversion
Max Adams, looks at the art of John Martin and how in his epic landscapes of apocalyptic scale one can see reflected his revolutionary leanings
The Madame Tussaud’s Notorious Chamber of Horrors
The Chamber of Horrors was one of the attractions at Madame Tussauds in London, being an exhibition of waxworks of notorious murderers
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‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder
This is a book review of ‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide to horror cinema
Rediscovering Horror: From Graveyard Poetry to Popular Culture
‘Horror: A Literary History’, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, is divided into seven chapters which function as separate essays that can be read without having specific knowledge about the horror genre
European Nightmares: The Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
One of the goals of European Nightmares is to oppose to the “old” Dollarshorror label with a more open and ductile concept that takes into account European-Hollywood co-production
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Sarah Burns’s ‘Painting the Dark Side’: Art and the Gothic
Sarah Burns’s book, ‘Painting the Dark Side’, aims to overturn what we think we know about nineteenth-century American art
‘Dangerous Bodies’: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
In this ambitious and comprehensive tome, ‘Dangerous Bodies’ engages with the Gothic’s obsession with the corporeal.
Horror Before Horror: Arthur Machen’s Nightmares
Worth concludes with similarly well-crafted analyses of two currents in Arthur Machen’s fiction that have contributed to his important place in the pre-history of genre Horror.
The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder on a train appeared.
Festival Rock al Parque Opening Taken to the Extreme
The first day of Festival Rock al Parque came as a punch in your face full of extreme sounds and mosh pits
Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque
Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian festivals such as Festival Rock al Parque
Apocalyptica Performance Opens Festival Del Diablo III
Festival del Diablo III triumphantly inaugurated with an intimate concert, Apocalyptica, which also marked the festival’s first documentary ever filmed
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07. Cinema
historical, and critical approaches
The Neo-Gothicism in ‘Dracula’, and ‘Ripper Street’ Television Series
Both neo-Gothicism and vampirism elide past and present, life and death, and shadow and substance — which last conflation is especially striking in neo-Gothic films and television series about vampires
Monsters in Culture: Folklore and Horror Movies
A way to differentiate the horror films from the other film genre is the presence of monsters of either supernatural or sci-fi origin
Adapting the Cannibal: The Gothic Essence of Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter became an icon of an elegant, intelligent evil that is able to possess both primitive features, such as cannibalism, but also a high taste in culture, superior intelligence and vast knowledge
Beginnings and Bloodlines of Vampires and Revenants
Of the particular vampire fiction that has, in the last 1960s, crossed over into film and subsequently redefined the vampire subgenre none in this category has achieved greater distinction
Aftergothic: Consumption, Machines, and Black Holes
Supernatural demons, natural forces (passion, guilt, sexuality), and most recently technological powers have successively assumed a predominant role in Gothic representations of cultural anxieties.
From Gothic Girl to the Iron Maiden: How Liv Boeree Made Poker Engaging
Liv Boeree: A gorgeous goth who has taken the world by storm.
“Do not Look… or it Takes You”: The Games of Horror Vacui
The aesthetic concept of horror vacui describes aspects of this obsession. Horror vacui is the fear of empty space that results in the over-marking of visual space.
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The Bloodied Compartment of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is in one sense a reinscription of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece ‘La Bête humaine’ (1890).
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium Insights
Duke University Press has lovingly reproduced the cover art of albums and a few singles in full colour alongside John Corbett’s commentaries.
‘Contemporary Gothic’, by Catherine Spooner
An enduring truism about the cultural phenomenon known as the Gothic is that it simply will not die.
Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’ Tales
In literature, as in the visual arts, images of the body have come to assimilate many of the collective changes of the postmodern world.
Theater
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Investing in the Aesthetics of Horror as a Theatrical Genre
The theatre is certainly no stranger to gruesome, frightening, and disturbing moments of horror.
No Exit for a Dead Body: What to do With a Scripted Corpse?
In dramatic plays when Macbeth kills young Seyward on the field of battle, and Shakespeare gives us no stage direction telling us when or how to dispose of the body, it reveals both horror and expectation altogether.
The Theatre Historian in the Mirror and Transformation of Space
During the past few years, a rising chorus of voices have begun to address the new theatre historiography.
The Concept of the Suffering Demon as the Principle of Chaos
The suffering demon, which surfaced in novels, short stories, dramas, and paintings in many Eastern and Western European countries at the turn of the century, has gone unnoticed by theatre scholars.
