Be complex, be very complex: Evaluating the integrative complexity of main characters in horror films.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Horror Films ◽  
Integrative Complexity

Cross-border Implications: Transnational Haunting, Gender and the Persistent Look of The Eye

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Visual Preference ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Film Series ◽  
Eastern Traditions

The Eye (Gin Gwai, 2002) and its two sequels (2004, 2005) deal with pan-Asian film production, gender, and identity. The films seem to embrace a transnational outlook that that fits a shared Southeast Asian cinematic and cultural agenda. Instead, they disclose tensions about Hong Kong’s identity, its relationship with other countries in the region, and its mixture of Western and Eastern traditions (Knee, 2009). As horror films, The Eye series feature transpositional hauntings framed by a visual preference for understanding reality and the supernatural that is complicated by the ghostly perceptions of their female protagonists. Thus, the issues explored in this film series rely on a haunting that presents textual manifestations of transposition, imposition, and alienation that further evidence its complicated pan-Asian look. This chapter examines the films’ privilege of vision as catalyst of a transnational, Asian Gothic horror aesthetic that addresses concepts of identity, gender, and subjectivity.

Terror nicht Horror

2009 ◽  
Vol 0 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Matthias Bickenbach
Keyword(s):  
Horror Films ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Film Version ◽  
History Of

Hideo Nakata's film version of THE RING sets up a remarkable constellation of technical and spiritualist media that has re-established the genre of psycho-horror films. The film is not just about a ghost story but, unlike the novels by Kôji Suzuki, about a primeval scene of the fear of media that initiates the eventuation of a "video curse", thereby raising the issue of the technology of fear as a history of media.

Victorians in the Closet: Oscar Wilde's Monstrous Hollywood Legacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-729
Author(s):  
Kate Hext
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
Early American ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Twentieth Century America

This essay offers a new perspective on the Victorians’ representation in early cinema. It argues that the profile of Oscar Wilde and the decadent movement was such, in early twentieth-century America, that its movies often viewed the Victorians through a decadent lens. Situating its discussion in a detailed exposition of Hollywood's interest in late-Victorian decadence, this essay discusses the reciprocal relationship between Oscar Wilde's imagination and cinematic horror. It sketches the inherently cinematic qualities in decadent writing and, focusing on Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), offers a new reading of how it incorporates different cinematic technologies to create a sense of supernatural horror. The essay goes on to examine how Wilde's novel inspired early American horror films, with close analysis of how its dialogue and visual effects were incorporated into the genre-defining adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde (1920).

The Aesthetics of Horror Films

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forrest Adam Sopuck
Keyword(s):  
Horror Films

Beaches in Australian Horror Films: Sites of Fear and Retreat

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-141
Author(s):  
Mark David Ryan ◽  
Elizabeth Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Horror Films
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