KATERINA BANTINAKI The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion With its roots in the English gothic novel of the eighteenth century and a body of work that spreads across different media‚ the horror genre has persisted in art for more than a century‚ gaining gradual popularity among audiences. Its success has been particularly pronounced in cinema‚ where horror films like The Exorcist‚ Jaws‚ Alien‚ Silence of the Lambs‚ and numerous others rank among the major box office hits in cinematic
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Psychological Horror Genres of psychological horror are stories or movies that fall under the view of horror that include a few essential elements: a villain or one seen as evil to create an initial story line. The foil is the next element; a foil is a person who tries to stop the villain from going through with the evil plan or plot. These two elements naturally lead to conflict between the two persons or groups and then from this conflict – suspense‚ the last element is added. Suspense is
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The short video‚ “How Movies Teach Manhood”‚ by Colin Stokes explains the complications of showing certain movies to younger children. His perspective elucidates how men are frequently showcased as strong and mighty and expected to defeat the villain. Along with a predictable trophy at the end‚ usually a woman. Stokes blames the movie media for men’s behavior‚ he doesn’t take into account other aspects of the person. My point is there are many movies with negative ideals‚ yet parents should be teaching
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Introduction a The history of clowns b Examples of modern horror clowns c Thesis statement II Comparing early clowns to horror clowns a Skills and character traits of early clowns that can be seen in today’s horror clowns b Negative incidents of clowns in history i The “parasite” ii Medieval fool iii Grimaldi iv The Arlecchino III Modern occurences of horror clowns in movies and real life a Determining the point at which the horror clown became mainstream i John Wayne Gacy ii It & Poltergeist
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The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his opinion on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentions a few of his past experiences and his feelings and emotions based on them. Based on this article‚ we are able extract that traveling is not just the matter of going somewhere other than your home and coming back the same person. It is somehow a little more than that as it affects us in ways unexplainable. An interesting point brought
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Terrance Ellis Eng 101 TTH Ms.Tolley Rough write 1 “Why we work” by Andrew Curry was very informational and resourceful. So it was not hard for me to agree with him about employees being stressed out and discontent with their jobs. Andrew gives multiple reasons to agree with him. Most of the reasons come from experience from my past and present jobs. Others reasons come from economy problems. I agree with Andrew because I to was stressed out and discontent at my past job Applebee’s. First the
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by Samuel Bayer are both classified as being in the horror genre. Directors use specific Narrative conventions such as the soundtrack‚ special effects and the monster itself to create suspense and fear within the film. Horror films have progressed over time to offer more conventions to make the films more thrilling to the audience. The sound track played in the film Nightmare on Elm Street differs only slightly to Jeepers Creepers. In horror films the sound track tends to include suspense building
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other side. As I said before there is a time when lying will be acceptable if it is appropriate‚ and people get some benefits on it. For instance if one of my family member got a bad hair cut‚ I wouldn’t tell him that he had a bad haircut. That’s why I said Lying depend on the situation. If my life is in big trouble‚ and at the time
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there is a type of movie to fit almost any situation that someone could possibly be in. Over the past ten years their have been three genres of movies that have stuck out in my mind as the most played in theaters: comedy‚ romance and horror films. In my opinion the most commonly played genre of movie in theaters is comedy films. I think comedy movies have been played so commonly because they are a lot of fun no matter what your mood may be. You could go see a comedy with a group of friends
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families in Disney movies. Four main themes were identified: (1) family relationships are a strong priority‚ (2) families are diverse‚ but the diversity is simplified‚ (3) fathers are elevated‚ while mothers are marginalized‚ and (4) couple relationships are created by “love at first sight‚” are easily maintained‚ and are often characterized by gender-based power differentials. These four main themes can be problematic because they are apparent in almost all the Disney movies and causes to form stereotypes
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