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Evolution of the Gothic in Contemporary Popular Culture
Starting from this awareness, this article aims at embracing, rather than fighting, the persistent tendency to disregard any manifestation of…
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‘I Vampiri’ and the Birth of Italian Gothic Horror Cinema
Scholars tend to agree on Riccardo Freda’s ‘I Vampiri’ (1957) being the first Italian horror film. Indeed, prior to Riccardo…
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Devil in Our Blood: A Brief History of Horror Science Fiction Films
The persistence of these themes over the last hundred years provides evidence that our beliefs and concerns about eugenic thinking,…
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British Cultural Moments of Taste for Extreme On-Screen Violence
British cultural horror cinema examined in this article in the ways in which violent international horror films of the 1960s,…
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Women in Western Horror from Romanticism to the Modern Age
The Western horror genre has undergone many changes over the years, reflecting and adapting to the changes in Western society.…
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Twenty-First-Century Torture Porn Horror Film Cycle
Torture porn has been thematically present as a trope in the horror film since its inception in the 1930s Hollywood…
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The New Extremism in Contemporary French Cinema
In keeping with the momentum of most new extremist narratives, the French cinema offers a way of exposition to maximize…
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When the Greatest Viking History and Myth Intermingle
This article concentrates on the History Channel’s contemporary television series entitled ‘Vikings’.
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Female Youth Transgression In 1980s Slasher Horror
Horror films as a genre typically have been excluded from discussions of film, often dismissed with contempt by the majority…
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Violent Women and the Sadism in Slasher Films
For the past seven years, the slasher film (alternatively called the “Woman in Danger Film”) has performed exceptionally well at…
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Hammer Film Productions Prestige in the Early 1960s
Although 1960s horror was supposedly dominated by Hammer Film Productions, prestige horror films had their very own problems to negotiate.