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From:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 25, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedWhile teaching The Exorcist to a group of high-school seniors in 2001, I began our class discussion by asking, "Why does Regan only kill men?" One student blithely replied, "Because she's got an oedipal thing." We had...
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From:Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Ever since its introduction, popularity of horror fiction has puzzled the minds of people across a variety of cultures and backgrounds. Preference for horror movies are not necessarily connected with...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE OPENING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY has witnessed what film scholars have described as a "zombie renaissance" (Bishop, "Dead Man" 16-25; Bishop, American Zombie 16; Dendle, Encyclopedia 172; Hubner, Leaning, and...
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From:Sexuality and Culture (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSlasher films are known for their graphic depictions of sex, brutalization and death. Many argue that these films sexualize and punish female characters. A content analysis of 48 influential slasher films from the 1960s...
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From:Sexuality and Culture (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSlasher films, a popular and lucrative sub-genre of horror movie, are often thought to be characterized by violence, gratuitous sexual content and specific, repetitive tropes; however, although these tropes have been...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 24, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 1930s and 40s Universal Studios gained Prominence with its stable of horror films featuring wnat became known as the studio's "Big Four" of Dracula, the Frankensteins creature, the Wolfman, and the Mummy....
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From:Studies in the Maternal (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis film essay Puncture, by Rachel Frances Sharpe, and accompanying paper, by Sophie Sexon, examine the abject qualities of blood and breastmilk. The film and paper make comparisons between late medieval imagery of...
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From:Post Script (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe formal qualities of realist texts that distinguish them from, say, fantasy or the avant-garde, can be identified-- secularism, material plausibility, verismilitude of mise-en-scene, for example; but there are too...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBeing satisfied in marriage provides protective stress buffering benefits to various health complications but the causal mechanisms and speed at which this is accomplished is less well understood. Much of the research on...
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From:Science Fiction Film and Television (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn verite horror and sf film, the camera exists within the diegesis, often with much of the story unfolding in real time, as if it were there recording actual events, as in the documentary tradition of cinema verite....
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From:Science Fiction Film and Television (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRabies (Kalevet; Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado Israel 2010). Image Entertainment, 2012. Region 1. 1.78:1 Widescreen. US$27.97. Rabies may be understood as the first Israeli horror film, but it's not the only...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 28, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSomething of an afterthought during the heyday of horror cinema at Universal Studios, the Wolf Math as depicted by Lon Chaney, Junior, nonetheless became a major attraction for horror fans in the 1940s. While Universal...
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From:Post Script (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks has been a cat-o'-nine-lives. From its original conception as a horror movie exceeding all expectations, something more disturbing than everything seen so far (via Dwain Esper's...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary PsychologyPeer-ReviewedWhen Egyptian King Tutankahamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, the world became enthralled with the numerous splendors of Egyptian culture, including design, architecture, and fashion. Tut's tomb was filled with the...