This thesis is focused on the intersection between horror, gender and politics in American haunted house films. Taking a “spherological” approach, the author argues that horror is evidence of a spherical breakdown, or a violation of existential space. Applying this approach to Hollywood haunted house films, the author demonstrates how those movies have, in the years since 2005, responded to a masculinity crisis discourse: by figuring haunting as a horrific disruption of paternal authority by violent masculine entities and powerful female ones, film-makers situate the movies in that discourse. By positing “security moms” (Grewal: 2006) and “paternal sovereigns” (Gunn: 2008) as responses to the crisis, the films construct a domestic space whe...
In this paper, I explore the relationship between gothic and horror novels and their film adaptation...
This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horr...
[eng] The home associated with the idea of security and family may become a locus corruptus, that is...
This thesis will examine the representation of motherhood in horror cinema in order to discuss the p...
This thesis explores depictions of suffering in American haunted house horror films and considers ho...
Hockey (1999) introduces the House of Doom; Bailey (1999) builds the Haunted House formula from Amer...
Gothic fiction is associated with death, drama, and fear, often combining doomed romance with villai...
It is apparent that there is a steady development and progress of haunted house films both in Mala...
This thesis is a contemporaneous analysis of the subgenre of demon-possession film in post-recession...
Most haunted house narratives, whether literary or filmic, are based on the same basic principle of ...
From bloody scream queens to seductive femmes fatales and cold-blooded murderesses, images of comple...
Examines the intersection of family values discourse with a cycle of thirty American domestic intrud...
This thesis investigates how domestic space is represented in ten films released between 1936 and 2...
AbstractFraming the Void: Trauma, Historical Erasure and the Excesses of HorrorbyKatherine Elizabeth...
Haunted houses are still a central figure in contemporary American film and literature alike. Contem...
In this paper, I explore the relationship between gothic and horror novels and their film adaptation...
This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horr...
[eng] The home associated with the idea of security and family may become a locus corruptus, that is...
This thesis will examine the representation of motherhood in horror cinema in order to discuss the p...
This thesis explores depictions of suffering in American haunted house horror films and considers ho...
Hockey (1999) introduces the House of Doom; Bailey (1999) builds the Haunted House formula from Amer...
Gothic fiction is associated with death, drama, and fear, often combining doomed romance with villai...
It is apparent that there is a steady development and progress of haunted house films both in Mala...
This thesis is a contemporaneous analysis of the subgenre of demon-possession film in post-recession...
Most haunted house narratives, whether literary or filmic, are based on the same basic principle of ...
From bloody scream queens to seductive femmes fatales and cold-blooded murderesses, images of comple...
Examines the intersection of family values discourse with a cycle of thirty American domestic intrud...
This thesis investigates how domestic space is represented in ten films released between 1936 and 2...
AbstractFraming the Void: Trauma, Historical Erasure and the Excesses of HorrorbyKatherine Elizabeth...
Haunted houses are still a central figure in contemporary American film and literature alike. Contem...
In this paper, I explore the relationship between gothic and horror novels and their film adaptation...
This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horr...
[eng] The home associated with the idea of security and family may become a locus corruptus, that is...