Motions
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Introduction to the Gothic Series: Welcome to Hell
An introduction to the modern gothic milieu is an article packed with an analysis of the genre in both theory…
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The Neo-Gothicism in ‘Dracula’, and ‘Ripper Street’ Television Series
Both neo-Gothicism and vampirism elide past and present, life and death, and shadow and substance — which last conflation is…
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Monsters in Culture: Folklore and Horror Movies
A way to differentiate the horror films from the other film genre is the presence of monsters of either supernatural…
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Adapting the Cannibal: The Gothic Essence of Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter became an icon of an elegant, intelligent evil that is able to possess both primitive features, such as…
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Beginnings and Bloodlines of Vampires and Revenants
Of the particular vampire fiction that has, in the last 1960s, crossed over into film and subsequently redefined the vampire…
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Misfit Sisters: Fairy Tales and Female Rites of Passage Narratives
Horror shares many concerns with fairy tales is not as strange a suggestion as some might think, for although we…
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Japanese Horror Art in Cinema and Their American Remakes
‘The Ring’ (2002) — Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success ‘Ringu’ (1998) — marked the beginning of a significant…
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The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema
The horror film is arguably the most robust, pliable, and successful of genres within contemporary cinema
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‘American Gods’: Myths, Narratives, and Secular Mythology
This article provides a critical analysis of the use of folklore and mythology that exists in Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel,…
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Case Studies in Dollars-Horror Cinema: ‘Blood and Black Lace’
‘Blood and Black Lace’ occupies a special place in the history of Dollars-horror cinema as the first actual Giallo film,…
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Hammer Film Productions Horror and the Japanese Counterparts
Hammer Film Productions asserted the traditional gothic markers of period settings, creepy cobwebbed castle corridors, and monsters from a folkloric…
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Rites and Rituals and Allegories of the Tales of the Undead
In the 1995 horror film ‘Tales from the Hood’, director/screenwriter Rusty Cundieff reworks the textures of these traumas by eerily…
