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Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John Open Access
Kylie Crabbe
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 66, Issue 2, December 2023, Pages 163–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbae008
Published: 17 May 2024
... RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact [email protected]. Acts of John Domestic abuse Sexual violence Desire Illness Agency Comedy Horror Greek novel ‘Either I’ll have you as a wife, as I had you before, or you...
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How Resource Scarcity Influences the Preference for Counterhedonic Consumption
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Haiyang Yang and Kuangjie Zhang
Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 48, Issue 5, February 2022, Pages 904–919, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucab024
Published: 01 May 2021
... consumed horror movies to a greater extent, but this pattern was not found for other movie genres such as romance or documentary. The remaining studies used diverse experimental approaches and counterhedonic consumption contexts (e.g., movie, novel, haunted house attraction, game) to provide causal...
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Social media and the visibility of horrific violence
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Constance Duncombe
International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 609–629, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa055
Published: 01 May 2020
... in a position where they are forced to act, which has significant implications for policy-making. Social media images emotions horror terrorism Images are central to social media communication. Billions of images are shared across different social media platforms every day: photos, cartoons, GIFs and short...
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Horror, apocalypse and world politics
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Tim Aistrope and Stefanie Fishel
International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 631–648, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa008
Published: 01 May 2020
...Tim Aistrope; Stefanie Fishel We argue that the horror genre is at once an access point for ethical engagement with the human consequences of extreme violence and a complex terrain where dark imaginings can be politically loaded and culturally specific. On the one hand, the horror genre foregrounds...
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Studying International Relations through Horror Films: A New Approach and Illustrations from Cannon Fodder and Freak Out
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Oren Barak and Daphne Inbar
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2021, Pages 160–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa004
Published: 26 March 2020
... of real-life violence. In order to address these general and case-specific gaps, we analyze two recent horror films produced in Israel: Cannon Fodder (2013, dir. Eitan Gafny) 4 and Freak Out (2015, dir. Boaz Armoni). As noted by film critics, more than half of the horror...
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Spooky Jane: Women, History, and Horror in Death Comes to Pemberley
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Camilla Nelson
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Adaptation, Volume 9, Issue 3, 1 December 2016, Pages 377–392, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apw035
Published: 06 October 2016
[email protected] 2016 Abstract This essay analyses the BBC Masterpiece production of Death Comes to Pemberley in the context of a proliferating field of gothic, horror, and paranormal adaptations of Austen, focusing on the gothic as a means of addressing issues of history, gender, and power. It argues...
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Feminine Adolescence as Uncanny: Masculinity, Haunting and Self-Estrangement
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Deborah Martin
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 135–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqs067
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the presence of the adolescent girl in gothic and horror narratives. It argues that, within theories of femininity, girlhood emerges as a self-estranged, partial or divided subjectivity, which is haunted by oedipal masculinity. It discusses the idea that the girl's memory or experience of active desire...
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Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’
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Julia Roos
German History, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 45–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr124
Published: 01 March 2012
...). 22 In the United States, the Steuben Society and German-Americans such as Sylvester Viereck and Edmund von Mach played a key role in organizing the black horror campaign and disseminating German propaganda materials. 23 The German government also was in close contact with the Swedish writer, Elin...
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‘Poe, You Are Avenged!’: Edgar Allan Poe and Universal Pictures’ The Raven (1935)
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Kyle Dawson Edwards
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Adaptation, Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2011, Pages 117–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apq015
Published: 12 November 2010
... the association further, the correlation between the author and the characters portrayed by Lugosi and Karloff inevitably recalls Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster and as a result begins uncannily to position Poe himself as yet another undead creature of the Universal horror genre. © The Author 2010...
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A Natural Little Girl: Reproduction and Naturalism in The Bad Seed as Novel, Play, and Film
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Perin Gurel
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2010, Pages 132–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apq003
Published: 18 June 2010
...; Weiss). Studies of mid-century horror movies and juvenile delinquency generally focus on the film and underplay Rhoda's biology (cf. Doherty; C. Jackson; Paul). William Paul, for example, dismisses the tool of heredity in the film altogether as pure ‘fantasy’, akin to the plot of satanic possession...