Culture
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Neo-African Haitian Voodoo In The Eighteenth-Century
Along with other Afro-American religions in Brazil and the Caribbean, Haitian voodoo constitutes one of the most striking examples of…
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Reviving Colombian Latin American Tropical Gothic
The exploration of the supernatural and the sublime too, are common features of Latin American Gothic that are evident in…
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‘El Fantasma Del Convento’ Early Latin American Gothic
The Mexican horror film ‘El Fantasma del Convento’ displays extraordinary cinematic technique in the visual representation of a haunted place.
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Hammer Film Productions in a Bookish Reciprocity
Hammer Film Productions had run its course by the early 1970s and cinematic production ceased altogether by 1975, yet, still…
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Hammer Film Productions’ Gothic Horror Narratives
Hammer Film Productions was affected by cultural, historical, and industrial factors that were responsible for the studios’ misfortune
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Hammer Film Productions’ and the Classical Gothic History
Hammer Film Productions’ brand of melodramatic Gothic Horror reinvented horror cinema in 1957 establishing a markedly recognizable house style
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Black Death Dread Case Of The Witch-Hunting Craze
From the mid sixteenth-century to mid seventeenth-century witch-hunts reached unprecedented frequency and intensity.
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The Archaeological Evidence of European Vampire Burials
The identification of deviant burials as those of “vampires” is a feature of excavated skeletons across Eastern, Central and Southern…
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Freakshow Traditions And Transformations In Prague
The transformations of the different forms of freakshow exhibitions, beginning with the early nineteenth-century tradition of fairs and mass entertainment.
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Pathological Discourses of Fictional Ageing in Vampiric Myths
Characterising vampires from its origins to its contemporary manifestations in literature is precisely the vampire’s disaffection with the effects of…
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The Fatal Attraction of Demented American Psychopaths
Because of the lack of concrete information, competing theories abound, and within the community of serial murderer aficionados, there is…
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Calaveras; Literary Humour In Mexico’s Day Of The Dead
As our understandings of space and society have altered through global perspectives, the universal enigma of death looms like never…
