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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Catherine Belling Abstract The ambivalent attraction of feeling horror might explain some paradoxes regarding the consumption of representations of atrocities committed in the real world, in the past, on actual other people. How do horror fictions work in the transmission or exploitation...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Adam Lowenstein Abstract This essay analyzes how George A. Romero, in his underrated psychological vampire film Martin , translates individual trauma (slow, process-based, unrecognized) into collective trauma (sudden, event-based, recognized) through a vocabulary of horror. The language of trauma...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to readings of gothic literature: “The Gothic . . . is inherently about deep-seated and large-scale, even national and international, traumas that are intimated and yet masked behind hyperbolic symbols of them.” 4 The exaggerations and excesses that characterize horror become meaningful as monstrous...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as another figuration of the trauma subject as articulated within the mode of horror. To be traumatized is to be entrapped within carceri , within chaotic, claustrophobic psychic spaces, but it is also to be taken out of oneself—pitilessly torn away from ordinary life and ordinary identity and rapt aloft...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 177–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Fred Botting Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 A-FFECT-LESS: ZOMBI E-HORROR-SHOCK F r e d B o ttin g Monkey Patients Dust, smoke, explosions, cries o f alarm , fear and pain. Bloody, beaten bodies and the m an gled rem ains o f a car. H and-held shots o f hum...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 20–34.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and act as an artistic response to centralist ideas of a unified and stable nation-state. Such a rethinking demonstrates that the horror genre continues to offer a language of anxiety capable of negotiating and contributing to debates around the importance of national accountability, war reparations...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Simon C. Estok Abstract Excess signals uncontrolled natural agency and thus provides a key ingredient in horror and ecohorror. Because excess ultimately threatens our agency over matter and meaning, nature comes to threaten the fall and dissolution of humanity, offer an erasure of what it means...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Raechel Dumas Abstract Contemporary Japan has been widely identified as a scene of crisis marked by the breakdown of established sociocultural institutions and the subordination of identity and desire to ever-evolving technocapitalist whims. Japanese-horror (J-horror) media of this period reveals...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... together with original synthesizer pieces that resemble those used in horror-film scores, vaporwave is an undead, artificial soundscape that floats somewhere between music and sound. Its fake nostalgia for an alternative yet ossified past aims to confront our contemporary social paralysis in the face...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Steffen Hantke Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 T h e A e s t h e t i c s o f A f f e c t in th e S h o t-b y-S h o t Remakes o f P sycho and F unny G am es Steffen Hantke 1. Introduction:The Horror Remake as High Concept A ffe ct has alw ays been the heart o f...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and dying in the j'ets fro m the s o ld ie rs' fla m e th ro w e rs , th e film has su d d e n ly sw itched registers, m o vin g from one affectively charged genre, horror, to a very different, but equally affectively charged one, m elodram a.1 M elod ra m a specializes in heightened scenarios o f pathos...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 21–35.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present . 2nd ed. New York : Routledge , 2022 . Robertson Campbell . “ South Carolina Judge Vacates Conviction of George Stinney in 1944 Execution .” New York Times , December 17 , 2014 . https://www.nytimes.com/2014...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., Routledge, 2008; Lim its o f Horror, M anchester U nive rsity Press, 2008) and, w ith Scott W ilson, on Georges Bataille [Bataille, Palgrave-M acm illan, 2001) and Quentin Tarantino ( TheTarantinian Ethics, Sage, 2001). Rob B reto n is associate professor o f English Studies at N ipissing University. His...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 235–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
... and horror. Both The Passion o f the Christ and The Punisher, then, show that human relationships can provide strength and hope in the m idst o f suffering and death. In both film s, this the matic is worked through graphic images o f the suffering male body. After all that has been w ritten about Gibson's...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 41–55.
Published: 01 December 2004
... for each of the ships he boards. In a way, they are all one ship a meta-ship, whose manifest and ports of calls are horror, mad ness, shipwreck and perverse ex-stasis. The Penguin, the first of these ships, is both agent of destruc tion and rescuer. The name foreshadows the journey to the south polar...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... And it was by these means, by persistently and directly confronting the greatest horror in a life that had had no shortage of horrors, that I reached a place where, usually, finally, I no longer wanted to follow her. . . . So, my point is simple. I do not—will not—accept that we recover from the tragedies of our lives...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 9–24.
Published: 01 September 2006
... lim its figures th a t w hich can never be pictured as the ultim ate aim tow ards w hich ph otography w ill alw ays aspire. This constitution of photography from horror, at the very lim its o f representation, goes som e w ay tow ards explaining the ethical am biguities th a t are raised...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 51–62.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and a further legitimation of lies and right-wing violence. The horror of the pandemic often blinds us to the fact that antidemocratic economic and political forces that have prioritized profits over human needs have grinded away at the social order for the last forty years. The pandemic at its height revealed...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 241–245.
Published: 01 March 2006
... as either anti-Semitic or not anti-Semitic. The generic consequences o f shooting in ancient languages are also worth noting. Like a number of earlier film s, The Passion merges the religious narrative w ith the horror story, a trend that goes back, as I have argued elsewhere, to Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... is about "the horror o f oblivion."9 The focus in the film is therefore on these top ics forgetting, love, the sym bolism o f both not merely on the individual psyche or the relationship between the tw o characters. She's story is not only about her. It involves He and is raised to being about "o b livio...
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