Culture
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From the Entertainment Springs of Cinematic Horror Thrills
“Thriller” was a film that provoked the kinds of physical reactions that are usually associated with horror today, and a…
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A Life of Crime and the Thriller as Horror Film
Crimes and horror films were seen as a brilliant blending of established trends rather than as the creation of a…
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Vampires in the Early Christian Era
The great irony of this period is that as the Church moved to fuse the non-Christian mythologies, it would be…
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Psychological Horror, and Body Horror
Perhaps the most frightening of all horror films are those where there are no monsters and no demons other than…
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Horror Cinema and the Mad Science of Nature
Horror films capitalise on our increasing sense of alienation from the natural environment, an alienation embodied in a growing ecological…
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The ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ Witching Evident Authority
The study of witchcraft has recently enjoyed a boom at all levels, extending from the popular and merely sensational to…
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Myths as Gamming Encouragement to Experience the Real
Myths and gaming, an opposition that exists between the individual, as an abstract observer, and nature, as the place of…
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Criminal Queens: Foucault’s Royal Genealogies
In what ways do Victorian’s project negative images about Victoria through their representations of shadow queens?
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Description and Analysis of a Gardnerian Wiccan Ritual
According to many theorists, Contemporary Pagan rituals are the primary agent for cohesiveness in an otherwise individualistic and vacillating religious…
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Romanian Vampiric Dark Tourism Characteristics
After the fall of communism in Romania, the number of foreign tourists in search of “Dracula’s myth” increased, however, even…
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Dark Tourism and an Orchestra of Emotions in the Darkness
This article discusses the balance between creativity and authentic simplicity in designing visitors’ on-site experience in dark tourism objects
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The Occult in Hammer Film Productions, and Ancient Traditions
This article argues that the portrayal of the occult in British horror films reflected contemporary realities of gender, class, race,…
