Horror Films Face Political Evils in Everyday Life
2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 22; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10584600591006654
ISSN1091-7675
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoStudies of cognition show that Americans get much of their political information from audiovisual media. Therefore, attention to popular films can help us learn how genre conventions communicate politics. The popular genre of horror uses subtexts to help people face political evils in their everyday lives. Many of the evils lately concern the politics of communication, and this is evident in a wide range of horror films, recently including Phone Booth (2003), The Ring (2002), and The Mothman Prophecies (2001).
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