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  The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age of HIV/AIDS

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  Andrew Owens DePaul University

  August 05, 2014

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  horror HIV/AIDS and Television Curator's Note Beginning in the summer of 1981, a smattering of ... by beginning a headlining story stating unequivocally that the “lifestyle of some male homosexuals ... cancer,” at least until the HIV virus was was officially named as such in May 1986. ...
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  All the Feels

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  Adrian Martin Monash University & EQZE Film School

  March 13, 2023

  classic, gruesome, eye-slitting effect at the beginning of Luis Buñuel’s and Salvador Dalí’s Un chien ... to believe then – and still believe today – that screen pedagogy is (at least in part) an attempt to ... sacrificed not the eye of a live human but a dead calf. OK, I know that the beginning of Un chien andalou can ...
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  Who’s going to believe a talking head?

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  Dylan Trigg University of Memphis

  June 02, 2015

  3 comments

  rapport between horror and comedy seems to us evident from the beginning of life to the end. Lacan tells ... with a horrifying realization that the body was never unified to begin with.   ...
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  “It’s Beautiful” – Hannibal’s Seduction through Visual Pleasure

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  Kirsty Worrow Shrewsbury Sixth Form College

  September 22, 2015

  22 comments

  assistance, I created this montage, which begins with these final words, in order to show how Hannibal creates ...
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  Playable Teaser, Kojima, and an Accidental Haunting of Genre

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  Ashley Darrow

  August 07, 2019

  4 comments

  beginning—rattles through our collective game design psyche like the very ghosts it set out to haunt us with. P.T. ...
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  "New York Sequence Initialized": Genre Cues and Play in the Resident Evil Film Franchise

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  Marianna Martin University of Chicago

  May 20, 2013

  begins with strangely domestic Alice in a warmly-lit suburban idyll before the zombies attack and it is ...
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  Maintaining the Neoliberal Home: Reproducing the Self through the Body of the Other

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  Corey Couch Georgia State University

  September 23, 2025

  with their likenesses one by one as they, themselves, begin to move up and down in social ... narrative that begins the shift from a classical organization (separation) into a neoliberal structure ... looked at as they continuously move locations— at least they’re never ungrounded, untethered, without the ...
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  Chucky Three Ways: Narrative, Industry, Fandom

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  Amanda Ann Klein East Carolina University

  Suzanne Scott The University of Texas at Austin

  Matt Boyd Smith Young Harris College

  November 18, 2025

  Narrative, Industry, Fandom,” has two distinct origin stories. The first begins at Console-ing Passions 2024, ... Three Years We Did Have:’ Content Strategy in the Time of  Chucky.” Beginning with the  Chucky ’s ...
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  Claire Denis as horror director

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  Nora Stone University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  November 01, 2019

  4 comments

  at Shane as he begins to bite her body and face while penetrating her. Then she is dead, covered in ...
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  Luz Diabla: Queer Horror in Argentinian Animation

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  Sofía Poggi

  October 30, 2025

  blackness begins to engulf him. The spell breaks when the blindfolded bartender severs his supernatural ...

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