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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795125003321

Titolo

Facing our darkness : manifestations of fear, horror and terror / / edited by Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and Ferenc Mújdricza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, United Kingdom : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-84888-429-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

302.17

Soggetti

Fear - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and Ferenc Mújdricza -- What We Fear and What We Desire: The Nature of Fear and Terror in Vampire Oriented Cinema / Magdalena Grabias -- From the Villain to the Avenger: Mythical Portrayals of Sweeney Todd / Karina dos Santos Salles -- Imprisoned in Silence: Anxiety and Embodiment in I Want To Live! / Eloise Ross -- Pregnancy, Horror, and Terror in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Of Spiritual Rebirth and Poetic Justice in the Narratives of Metafilm / Thulile Pearl Shandu -- Archaeology of 21st Century U.S. Horror: Production, Exhibition and Consumption of Hardcore Horror / James Aston -- A World without Magic: The Curse in Once Upon a Time / Sandra Trabucco Valenzuela -- The Traumatised Body of the Performance Artist: Marina Abramović and Franko B. / Karolina Lambrou -- Childish Games: Children, Horror, and the Abu Ghraib Photographs / Ana Romão -- Bored to Death: Violence and Narrative Indifference in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 / Nisha Viswanathan -- The Spirit of Lucifer: Rethinking the Mythology of Isak Dinesen / Svend Skriver -- Japanese Occupation of Andaman 1942-1945: A Promise of Freedom or Betrayal / Deepshikha Salooja -- Morality in Hell: Case Study on Women in Auschwitz / Lily Halpert Zamir -- Symbolism and Militarism of Canada’s North / Mark Williams and Danita Catherine Burke -- Horror and Fear Associated with Current Methods of Exorcism among Pentecostals in Nigeria / Eunice I. Anyacho and Ernest O. Anyacho -- Fear and Terror Surrounding the Myth and Migration of the



Fulani Nomads and Their Yearly Clashes with Crop Farmers in Nigeria / Ernest Okey Anyacho and Eugene U. Ibli -- The Anxious Self in Contemporary Self-Help Literature / Valérie de Courville Nicol -- Fear Arising Out of Misinterpretation: Cultural Differences between the Loong and the Dragon / Wenjing Bi -- The Experience of the Negative Sublime: A Terror Heuristic of the Anthropic Action Effects on the Environment / Sandra Escobar -- The Wearing of Death: Fear of Death and Social Deviance / Ferenc Mújdricza -- ‘Fear’, ‘Horror’ and ‘Terror’: Not Moral-Evaluation Constants but Moral-Evaluation Functions, Determined by Two Moral-Evaluation-Variables in Algebra of Formal Ethics / Vladimir Lobovikov.