In 1792 James Gillray painted a painting called “A Voluptuary under the horrors of digestion.” The painting depicts a prince sitting at an empty table where he is picking his teeth with a fork. there is a chamber pot in the background that is overflowing and there are empty alcohol bottles laying around. he is a voluptuary‚ which is someone who overindulges in luxury. The prince meets none of the following criteria to become a good king: he must be good with money‚ must be a good role model‚ and
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Feeding Our Gators: A Response to Stephen King’s Why We Crave Horror Movies Stephen King writes very accurately on how we‚ the public‚ desire the need “to put away our more civilized and adult penchant for analysis and to become children again” by watching a horror-themed movie. In the article Why We Crave Horror Movies‚ written by Stephen King and published by Playboy Press in Chicago‚ Illinois in 1981‚ King suggests that horror fiction meets an important and critical human need that endeavour
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Edwin Tompkins Ms. Allen English 100-010 04/08/2013 Why We Need Horror Movies In “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” Stephen King writes about horror movies‚ why we like them‚ and the purposes they serve us. One of the main reasons he makes in his essay is that he believes that there is a dark and sinister side to all people that craves to see the suffrage and despair of others and that this is why we need these movies. King says that these particular kinds of movies are good in the way that the
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1. Ida B. Wells wrote the primary source Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. This article was published in October 1892. On the Encyclopedia Britannica Online I read that Ida B. Wells attended Rust University‚ which was a freedmen’s school‚ in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi. She started teaching when he was only 14 years old! Later she moved to Memphis‚ Tennessee and she taught there as well. While living and teaching in Tennessee she attended Fisk University‚ which is in Nashville‚ she was
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are represented in the horror genre? In this essay I am going to look how woman are represented in the horror genre and how much of an impact it has on the success of the movie. In my research I seen that woman cover two main roles in the movies‚ the villain e.g. The Exorcist or the victim e.g. The others. When woman are the main villain in horror genre I found it mainly was teenage girls e.g. The Ring‚ The Exorcist‚ The Grudge and The Orphan. I think the reason many horror movies use young woman
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“I’m just a sweet transvestite‚ from transsexual Transylvania‚” Lyrics like these shocked audiences around the world in the mid-70’s. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” a culture shock that now has grown into a pop culture classic was received with mixed reviews and unimpressive box office appeal. The musical comedy-satire-spoof of the horror/sci-fi genre was released nationwide September 1975 with advance screenings in cities like London and Los Angeles. Sadly the success of the film didn’t begin
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SOUTHERN HORRORS In the late 19th century‚ Ida B. Wells dedicated most of her life to spreading the word about the horrific nature of lynching in the American South. Wells was a journalist‚ teacher‚ rights activist‚ and a public speaker. As an African American woman in the south during this time‚ Ida B. Wells was able to use her status as journalist to expose to the general public the true facts of lynching cases that suggested black wrongdoings. Wells used cases from all over America to convey
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Horror can make you scream and cry‚ yet we alway come back asking for more. Scary Tales by Jackie Torrence is about scary stories being good for children. I disagree with her because horror can give you blood clots‚ nightmares‚ and paranoia. To begin with‚ scary stories can give people blood clots. According to http://hellogiggles.com/horror-movies-bad-for-health/‚ a study was done on the movie Insidious‚ which gave people higher levels of coagulant factor VIII‚ which can create blood
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The Shining Horror Analysis The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick is a phenominal movie. Stanley Kubrick made this movie with no coinsedences. The main character‚ Jack Torrence‚ agrees to watch the Overlook hotel in the winter. Over his time there he goes insane‚ almost like Norman Bates from Psycho is insane. Also throughout the movie there is a ton of red‚ white‚ and blue. This movie is under the suspense unit‚ but some can argue that it is horror. There are many themes throughout the shining
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Horror in Films Alfred Hitchcock once said‚ “The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them” (Alfred Hitchcock Quotes). I do not make horror films‚ but I do watch them. Similar to Hitchcock‚ they help me face my fears. Do you associate horror films with your fears? My biggest fears are demonophobia‚ which is the fear of evil spirits‚ and taphephobia‚ which is the fear of being buried alive (Phobia Lists). These phobias most certainly helped in my decision to compare and contrast
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