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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan"

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  Erica Tortolani University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  October 30, 2019

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  Reclaiming the Female Monster in "Possibly in Michigan" horror female directors ... Possibly in Michigan.  “Strangely, she had a way of making the violence seem like it was their idea.”  ... that would follow, Possibly in Michigan upends the images that have been traditionally assigned to ...
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  Perinatal Mental Health in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (2016)

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  AnnaMcFarlane University of Glasgow

  November 18, 2021

  environment that leads to poor perinatal mental health, alongside practical social issues such as the failure ...
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  Corporate Authorship, Film Adaptation, and Universal Pictures’ The Raven (1935)

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  Kyle Edwards Oakland University

  November 27, 2007

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  of betrayal and torture and, in a more harrowing possibility, possess the potential of transforming ...
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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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  the Soska Sisters’ American Mary and more recently Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge? I’m not here to argue ...
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  Electrifying the Dead: The Psycho Franchise and Industrial Horror

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  Alex_Remington University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio-TV-Film

  October 27, 2021

  boundaries, is a defining mark of horror—Mary Douglas talks about it in relation to im/purity, Julie Kristeva ...
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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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  Bad Film Curator's Note Killer Condom (1996) is quite possibly the most pro-queer film of the ...
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  High Anxiety: Or, How Shiva Baby Approaches Horror

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  Joseph Ozias Central Methodist University

  September 15, 2025

  the movie are the family’s questions alongside their dismissing of her love of a woman. Horror, then, ... accepting that love that scares Danielle, alongside being “found out.” But, importantly, the “being found ...
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  We Got 5 On It, An Anthem: possibilities and cultural techniques of Black audio-visual texts

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  Mirella Ntahonsigaye Communication Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  October 07, 2022

  We Got 5 On It, An Anthem: possibilities and cultural techniques of Black audio-visual texts media ... Jordan Peele’s Us as having various cultural techniques that make it possible to create the kind of ...
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  Regretting Motherhood in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014)

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  Andrea Wood Winona State University

  October 28, 2019

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  Regretting Motherhood in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) horror women directors The Babadook Curator's Note The “taboo” subject of women who regret having children is rarely discussed. While there’s still great social disapprobation toward w ...
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  AR Horror Gimmicks: Sites of Unbounded Potential and Vulnerability

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  Alexander Svensson Indiana University, Bloomington

  April 02, 2019

  3 comments

  own possibilities of material unboundedness and breakdown. Importantly, these notions of bodily excess ...

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