Culture
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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,…
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“Horror Film”: How the Term Came to Be
But the arrival of the name, “horror,” possessed power and meaning that resonate to the present day
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Social Aspects of the Monsters We Fear in the Movies
Horror films offer the pleasure of the intended affects among which we can identify a sense of suspense, a sense…
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Lost in Kubrick’s Maze and ‘The Shining’s Room 237
Few movies in the history of cinema have been as enigmatic and thought-provoking as Kubrick’s horror masterpiece ‘The Shining’ (1980)
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A Comparison of Revival to Medieval Gothic Architecture
Gothic architecture is a style that has two forms. The first, Medieval Gothic architecture, narrates these changes through the architectural…
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Vampires Throughout Centuries in Popular Culture
Over the centuries, there have been many incarnations of vampires throughout the world as documented in legend, folklore, historical accounts,…
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Time Machines and Steampunk in Contemporary Art
Literary and cinematic connections to the steampunk genre continue to be well documented in both scholarly and popular literature
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The Music of the Past in Modern Baltic Paganism
Modern Baltic Paganism grew out of nineteenth- and twentieth-century folklore research into the folk music, folklore and traditional ethnic cultures…
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Apocalyptic and the Gothic Aftermath Through Victorian Times
Victorian culture is often lampooned for its obstinate, reckless progressivism, its racist insistence on the benignity of Western culture, but…
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Rereading Witchcraft Stories, and Why Do We Need to Reread?
This article explores the stories told by and about “witches” and their “victims”, and questions what can be recovered from…
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Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill Murder
Given the more or less immutable traits of human nature, including our innate potential for violently antisocial behaviour, it is…
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Witchcraft’s Origins in Shamanism, Wiccan, and the Cults
First, we must look at the true origins of witchcraft, those hidden in the mists of time. This is a…
