Homework Task By Gillian Ferguson The film Stand By Me directed by Rob Reiner explores ideas of both physical and inner journeys. The plot revolves around four 12 year old boy’s journey to find the body of a missing boy. Through this quest each of the characters goes through an inner journey and grows emotionally. The filmmaker uses a variety of techniques to illustrate the theme of journey including voiceover narration‚ metaphors and flashbacks. The film is told through voice-over narration
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Spooky Indeed Gothic fiction is a genre of literature and film that is fictional and often includes horror and death‚ along with drawing it’s setting from the era of medieval castles. What are the characteristics most commonly associated with gothic fiction? Death‚ madness‚ gloominess‚ menacing characters‚ and supernatural elements are the majority of those. Even though all are used in Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ (widely considered a classic gothic fiction novel) gloominess is the most prominent characteristic
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Barry Lyndon / The Shining Response Paper Kubrick explores different types of violence in the movies “Barry Lyndon” and “The Shining”. “Barry Lyndon” is period drama with extremely formalized violence while “The Shining” is a psychological horror film with surreal violence. Both utilize violence in very different ways to support the themes and narratives. In “Barry Lyndon” Kubrick seems to be interested in the formalization of violence in the 18th century. The film has a very dry sense of
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Being an outsider is not an easy thing and that is proven almost everyday in some way. An outsider comes in all shapes‚ and forms no matter the location whether it is school‚ home‚ work‚ etc. an outsider faces the constant day to day struggle of trying to fit in with their surroundings. In the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” written by Junot Díaz‚ the effects- mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally- of outsiderness can be seen in many ways. In his novel Díaz shows how different things
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I think A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is so popular because of its inventive antagonist; A villain that terrorizes victims in an inescapable world where the victim has little to no power. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was inspired by reportedly true events. Wes Craven read and clipped articles from the L.A. Times about a young man who died during a nightmare. The young man and his family had come out of a relocation camp in Southeast Asia and were living in California. He would have these severe nightmares
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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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Horror has been a long time one of the most popular categories of films in the movie industry. People liked to watch horror films to be afraid and to outdo their fears: "On a psychological level‚ the horror film dramatizes our nightmares‚ so that we can confront them" (Sigmund Freud‚ p.644). Gradually‚ because horror films became too repetitive and too numerous‚ people got used to watching them and were no longer terrified. Even if horror films do not scare us‚ why do we continue to watch them? The
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Throughout reading the novel The Night Circus‚ I noticed the similarities between this world of fiction and the world I currently reside in. This encouraged me to think about the type of person Erin Morgenstern must have been‚ and the place she must have been in while creating this novel. The references to older works of literature and cleaver use of word play implies that she is the type of person who has spent her while life reading; Someone who has a love for the craft that is writing‚ over all
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The gothic genre involves a combination of horrific‚ grotesque fictional stories. In this Gothic Literature class‚ we have read and discussed many stories of the gothic genre that include death‚ terror‚ frightening situations‚ and many more gothic elements. However‚ out of all the stories that we had read‚ some portray a more gothic theme than others. “Sardonicus”‚ a story written by Ray Russel in 1961‚ is an example of this. This story contains many of the Gothic elements we have discussed in class
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Similarly to the Paradox of Horror‚ we also seem to be in a sort of paradoxical state when we experience pleasure from watching films of a melancholic nature. We in engage with these fictions and we experience aesthetic pleasure from these feelings of sadness that they stir up. This stands in conflict with everyday life‚ where most people seek to avoid sadness in order to avoid experiencing the negative feelings that are associated with real sadness. Some attempts to resolve this paradox amounts
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