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24 dic 2018 · di Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen - Una vecchiaccia vuole il proprio cervello impiantato in un corpo giovane: all'uopo chiama tre gnocche come domestiche. Non siamo in zona Ed Wood: gli attori recitano con coerenza; gli effetti speciali sono poverelli assai: tuttavia se ne son visti di ben peggiori. Il kitsch non è mai attinto anche se il ridicolo è dietro l'angolo (c'è una tizia che ...
Desire and Monstrosity in the Disaster Film 91 different form. For that reason alone, it is worth observing the logic of violence in the film, and the way the scapegoat mechanism continues to function in modern society, if only on the level of narrative rather than religious ritual. The Birds begins with a chance encounter in an urban pet shop.
Monstrosity: Directed by Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen. With Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters. A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
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The author engages in a critical dialogue with key theories of gender in the horror film, particularly Carol Clover's work, arguing that these films, despite their formal deviance from Hollywood (gender) formulas—such as positioning a female figure at the center of the narrative—do not usually depart from that cinema's patriarchal signification.
23 ott 2020 · Abstract. Early Hollywood horror, and Boris Karloff's portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in particular, must be understood as cultural products of the age of polio. Polio survivors have drawn attention to kinetic similarities between their experiences and Karloff's gait, but horror and polio culture also share interests in experiments on ...
Drawing from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives in film and media studies, literary studies, history, medicine and women’s and gender studies, Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity builds upon pre-existing work while engaging more directly with monstrous progeny, as well as with unnatural reproduction(s), which threaten to eclipse the ...
