Cinema

The trope of the ‘haunting melody’ recurs in film noir of the classic era (1940-1959)

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat

Film noir has been one of the most debated, most discussed and most contested terms in studies of film history…

The horror film offers a particularly interesting example of this punishment in the woman’s terrified look at the horrible body…

This study indicated an aesthetic shift in Hollywood horror cinema towards a Gothic-realist mode that renders a disturbing reality through…

Monsters must be examined within the intricate matrix of relations (social, cultural, and literary-historical) which generate them

Every culture has ghost stories, for example, but the causes and purposes of these spirits are as varied as the…

In 1935, Universal Pictures released James Whale’s ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ a horror film featuring a monster denied the power of…

The recent emergence of a crop of successful French-language horror films manifests a multiplicity of transformations in Québec cinema in…

Hammer Film Productions had run its course by the early 1970s and cinematic production ceased altogether by 1975, yet, still…

Hammer Film Productions was affected by cultural, historical, and industrial factors that were responsible for the studios’ misfortune

Hammer Film Productions’ brand of melodramatic Gothic Horror reinvented horror cinema in 1957 establishing a markedly recognizable house style