Culture
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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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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,…
