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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom"

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  Kaelin B.C. Alexander Cornell University

  March 19, 2009

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  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the "Killer Condom" Sci-fi Queer Studies horror Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the past two decades. No, really. For all of its problems, Mar ...
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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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  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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  Who’s going to believe a talking head?

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  Dylan Trigg University of Memphis

  June 02, 2015

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  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

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  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

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  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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  Gendered Horror, Sexual Assault, and Revenge (2017)

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  Geneveive Newman University of Pittsburgh

  October 29, 2019

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  Gendered Horror, Sexual Assault, and Revenge (2017) horror rape gender trauma female directors Curator's Note A strong case can be made for the utility of violence in representations of reclaiming the female body for women. The rape-revenge sub-genre ...
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  Border Crossing Nightmares: Gigi Saul Guerrero’s "Dead Crossing" and Female-Directed Latinx Horror

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  Sonia Lupher University of Pittsburgh

  October 31, 2019

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  Border Crossing Nightmares: Gigi Saul Guerrero’s "Dead Crossing" and Female-Directed Latinx Horror horror independent horror women in horror horror shorts Curator's Note In terms of sheer numbers, the dominant output of female-directed horr ...
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  Claire Denis as horror director

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  Nora Stone University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  November 01, 2019

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  at Shane as he begins to bite her body and face while penetrating her. Then she is dead, covered in ...
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  Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

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  Adam Cybulski University of Lodz

  April 01, 2020

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  Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation Panos Cosmatos retro horror 1980s Curator's Note Recent retro works of popular culture—feature films and internet shows—seem to use 1980’s aesthetics as a catalogue of audiovisual attractio ...

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