Essays about: "body horror"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words body horror.

1. 1. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Rebecca Sonesson; [2023-07-07]
   Keywords : Horror; Clive Barker; gothic literature; The Hellbound Heart; literary studies; body horror; new materialism; splatterpunk; the weird;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. READ MORE

3. 2. Bad Bitch, White Witch : A Study of the Crossover Star Personas of Supermodel-Actors Devon Aoki and Abbey Lee

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Aléks J. Forsenberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Supermodel-actors; Stardom; Celebrity; Star personas; Devon Aoki; Abbey Lee; Action film; Horror film; Bodily capital; Whiteness; Asian stereotypes; Modelling; Supermodels; Fashion models;

   Abstract : While it is very common for supermodels to make the occasional foray into cinematic performance, and some of them manage to turn these forays into full-time careers in acting, it is very rare that supermodel-actors are afforded any academic attention. This thesis seeks to change this through a case study of two supermodel-actors: Devon Aoki and Abbey Lee. READ MORE

4. 3. Frighteningly Female - Subversion of horror film tropes in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Sofia Lövgren Hansson; [2022-04-13]
   Keywords : Feminism; Horror; Gretel Hansel; Subversive; Women;

   Abstract : This essay aims to examine the portrayal of the reproductive and aging female body as horrific in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel (2020). It proposes that the reinterpretation of the Grimm brothers' classical fairytale as a feminist coming of age story, centering Gretel as the protagonist and the witch as a mentor, allows for a subversion of horror film tropes pertaining to the reproductive female body. READ MORE

5. 4. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

   Author : Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
   Keywords : Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

   Abstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE

6. 5. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
   Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE