There remain many doubts over the theory of “genre”‚ the word comes from the Latin for “class” used widely across both media and literature in order to categorise the works. As with the majority of genres‚ “horrors” have been altered and manipulated over time in order to coincide with the time period. With this being said‚ two films particularly enforce this post-modern “horror” and yet both contain an array of sub-genres‚ mutating “genre” into a more complex idea. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho along
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Clive Baker once said‚ “Horror fiction shows that the control that we believe we have is purely illusory and that every moment we teeter on chaos‚ and oblivion.” Horror type shows and books are one of my favorite genres. One of my favorite shows is Hannibal. The way they filmed and wrote Hannibal was truly breathtaking. Hannibal is about Dr. Hannibal Lector‚ who works as a psychiatrist. Hannibal is in fact‚ not the protagonist. He is a cannibal‚ who will take a body part or a few from his victims
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Journal Entry 1 – A Marine’s Troubled Life Anthony says this soliloquy that reveals a lot about what will happen later on‚ “I remember about myself a loneliness and poverty of spirit; mental collapse; brief jovial moments after weeks of exhaustion; discomfiting bodily pain; constant ringing in my ears; sleeplessness and drunkenness and desperation; fits of rage and despondency; mutiny of the self; lovers to whom I lied; lovers who lied to me. I remember going in one end and coming out the other
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‘For me‚ the story is less a horror…than a larger than life gothic fairytale’ (Kenneth Brannagh) How far and in what ways do you agree with this description of the text? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel which forces the reader to question whether it is a simple horror story or whether it is a gothic fairytale of many depths. Frankenstein is considered by many critics as the first modern horror story ever written‚ and it opened a whole new world of ideas for novels and has inspired many similar
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The third research question focuses on the classic Gothic texts that are incorporated in this corpus. This research question refers to Clive Bloom’s list of significant horror and ghost tales provided in his book Gothic Horror (xiii-xvii). Since fear is part of the emotions of horror as well‚ an intense representation of its linguistic expressions is expected to be found in those works. A certain number of these horror tales were incorporated in the corpus too which were analysed in order to detect
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Rebecca Rebecca has 4 genres within it: - Gothic: terror‚ mystery‚ supernatural‚ ghosts‚ haunted houses and Gothic architecture‚ castles‚ darkness‚ death‚ decay‚ doubles‚ madness‚ secrets and hereditary curses. - Physiological thriller: characters are reliant on their mental resources‚ whether it is by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling of equilibrium in the character’s own mind. - Subversion of romance: sets up the conventions of a romantic genre then slowly subvert
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To‚ Dear Sir/Madam‚ I have been a faithful employee in this company for the past 2 years. My time at the company has been good one so far‚ but now a problem has crept up‚ which threatens to disrupt my otherwise peaceful time at the company. This letter is regarding the behavior of my immediate head. He is the Plant Manager‚ and for some reason of his own‚ he has singled me out to harass. Ever since‚ he was transferred from Aryzta Company situated in Ireland to other branch of the same company situated
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Gothic novels often were set in Gothic-style castles and churches. Gothic fiction‚ which reached the height of its popularity in the late 18th to mid-19th centuries‚ was a genre of fiction that focused on the darker‚ irrational and more terrifying aspects of life. The Gothic novel was a reaction against the Enlightenment‚ which saw the world and humans as ordered and logical. Gothic conventions have remained popular and are still found in novels‚ music and film. 1. Conventions of Setting o "Gothic"
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Kevin Pearson 3-28-12 I. Attention Getter Have you never felt a sudden rush of panic when you saw something scary pop out of nowhere in a Horror movie? Have you never squirmed in you seat at the theatre or even in your living room chair because you saw something that was unsettling on the screen? II. Need Step Of course you have. All of us have. Every one of us has been afraid or startled by something or someone in the Horror movie medium. But‚ why? What make us so afraid of the
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Stand by Me This movie contained the growth and development through physical and emotional stages of middle childhood boys. Their ages were around twelve years old and they were just starting junior high. In this movie we learn the background of each of the four boy ’s lives and how his development has changed over the impact of a fellow boy ’s death. We first look at Gordy‚ who is them main character of the movie. He has a hard life due to the death of his older brother in a jeep accident. He
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