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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Melissa C. Macero Is immersion merely a subjective response to a work, or can it be an objective formal feature of the work itself? This article examines the unique situation of horror as a genre that demands a substantial level of immersion in order to be successful and will begin to answer...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 117–134.
Published: 01 July 2016
... GENRE a similar argument: the most successful “Lovecraftian” works are not the direct adaptations of his fiction but those that inhabit the “Lovecraftian aura” of cosmic horror. This includes Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), with its monster and set design by H. R. Giger, and John Carpenter’s...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 183–207.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Fred Botting Unrealism addresses the way unrealistic genres of writing like science fiction, horror, romance, and fantasy can display a capacity to reflect on and interrogate generic conventions. Unrealism describes a process that unsettles the literary hierarchies in which genre fiction...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Commentary.” Los Angeles Times , October 30 . articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/30/entertainment/la-ca-colson-whitehead-20111030 . Birch-Bayley Nicole . 2012 . “Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie.” Journal of Popular Culture 45 , no. 6 : 1137 – 51...
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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 137–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... This is partly because the horror genre itself has fraught borders that become even more unstable when trans-Atlantic production and distribution are taken into consideration. Here, we are concerned with a movie filmed in Spain and Spanish, and concerning historical events occurring in Spain...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2016
... fascist to broadcaster for the Nazis. These images became the sole subject of issue 5 of Hard Core Horror. Coulthart (2006a) remarks, “In essence, all my Lovecraftian impulses were redirected into the death camp architecture of Hard 234 GENRE Core Horror 5.” Coulthart’s...
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Genre (2015) 48 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 April 2015
... 1. Anne Williams (1995, 72 – 76) maps out these distinctions. She observes that “unlike horror, which threatens corporeal integrity — one’s being as a body — the sublime overwhelms the self with the idea of an overwhelming power” (76). Genre, Vol. 48, No. 1  April 2015  DOI 10.1215...
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Genre (2009) 42 (1-2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2009
... place in a historical context both psychoanalysis' narrative about the journey to the unconscious and post-structuralism's narrative about the decentering of the West's logocentrism" (1989: 253). Thomas translates Kurtz's word, "horror" - which Smith takes at 180 GENRE face value...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Steven Shaviro This essay analyzes the Detroit writer Kathe Koja's 1991 novel The Cipher to demonstrate how her systematic omission of the conventional themes and formal elements of weird fiction results in an intensified interrogation of the genre's characteristic affects and their physical...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 199–211.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy In this wide-ranging interview, the New Weird novelist and critic China Miéville offers an account of weird fiction's liminal status as a countertradition that problematizes the critical divisions between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In driving...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... fictional output depicts bourgeois disconcertedness, Sansom also wrote horror stories, sometimes sharing clear affinities with the Lovecraftian weird. This article considers the weirdness of his more apparently conventional fiction, specifically The Body (1949). Here one finds an apparently straightforward...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 135–158.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Fiona Price This article reads Lovecraft's weird fiction in relation to his historically minded eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors. In his essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” (1927) the first text Lovecraft focuses on at length is Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of elements from horror, science fiction, and fantasy marked it as an innately lowbrow genre that might perhaps provide raw material for more serious literary experimentation and achievement, particularly during the modern and postmodern periods, but was incapable of such experiment or achievement...
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of condensation. They are all tacked together by an invisible web, inextricably connected. There are tears in Ferris's attic. These tears appear in suppressed memories, and in the horror comics and movies into which children and adults alike project their loneliness and anxiety. They are shed by humans...
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Genre (2012) 45 (2): 269–298.
Published: 01 June 2012
... step in my argument. Genre, Vol. 45, No. 2  Summer 2012  DOI 10.1215/001669281574312  © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 270 GENRE she consequently returns to her room in the Euphrosyne and becomes absorbed in a “Bach fugue.” Rachel’s flight from the encounter with Helen and Clarissa...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 309–329.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and to Karen Swann for inviting me to Williams, and to both for their generous readings. Special thanks also to: David Agruss, Henry Russell Bergstein, Ellis Hanson, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Rob Odom, and two readers for Genre. GENRE XXXV - SUMMER 2002 - 309-330. COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLA...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 105–129.
Published: 01 March 2007
... threat of history out of con- 120 GENRE trol, as barbarism suddenly threatens to emerge not from the past but from the future, incarnated not in an archaic queen but in a technological warrior. Images of death, horror, and voracious European masculinity begin...
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Genre (2004) 37 (3-4): 395–432.
Published: 01 September 2004
... .'' A Companion to the Gothic . Ed. Punter David . Oxford : Blackwell , 2001 . 3 - 14 . —. `` Power in the Darkness: Heterotopias, Literature and Gothic Labyrinths .'' Genre 26 ( 1994 ): 253 - 82 .> Bruhm Steven . Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 331–353.
Published: 01 June 2002
... IN DETECTIVE FICTION: THE CASE OF PHILIP KERR'S BERLIN NOIR TRILOGY BRIAN DIEMERT, BRESCIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Among other things postmodern fiction is incredibly self-conscious and highly allusive of other texts, and this is no less true of a good deal of contempo- rary genre fiction...
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Genre (2023) 56 (3): 265–281.
Published: 01 December 2023
... d'un genre .” Comparatistica , no. 14 : 113 – 36 . Lovecraft H. P. ( 1929 ) 2005 . “ The Dunwich Horror .” In Tales , edited by Straub Peter , 370 – 414 . New York : Library of America . Lugnani Lucio . 1983 . “ Verità e disordine: Il dispositivo dell'oggetto mediatore...