The aim of this thesis is to study the stakes and strategies behind the apparition of fear in novels and video games. Through a comparative approach, I intend to theorize the bridging of these mediums and the paradigms structuring scary fictions. At the core of this work lie the ability of video gam...

The aim of this thesis is to study the stakes and strategies behind the apparition of fear in novels and video games. Through a comparative approach, I intend to theorize the bridging of these mediums and the paradigms structuring scary fictions. At the core of this work lie the ability of video gam...

The first French dramaturges take old models as models. Mr Grevin recommended the imitation of the Greek tragics, as well as the imitation of Senegal. Like Rivaudeau, he saw them as a treasure. Imitating them is therefore legitimate. Seticket, however, does not exclude modern authors. In some parate...

This research focuses on the analysis of the problem of the suicide tragedy in the Canadian Armed Forces. Thus, the question of research is: Why do some soldiers, after surviving the horror of war during peace or combat missions under the auspices of UN 1 or NATO, lose their psychological or spiritu...

A cinematic shot is the basis of the film, regardless of the size, angle, or motion of this shot. However, the size of the footage and the process of showing or hiding the scene or cinematic personality has a certain speciality   related to the nature of cinematic treatment and the type of the movie...

This bibliography lists work on the history of the SF, ranging from pulps history, comics, cinema, biographies of authors or publishers, bibliographies, etc. Many of these works have been written by historiographs from the fandom SF. Some works have been written by actors in the field, writers, publ...

This artistic research aims at conceptualising the abject body, which is both theoretical and sceptical. It is divided into three parts: a theoretical study, a sceptical laboratory and a sceptical assembly/dismantling. It is theoretically underpinned by the work of Judith Butler: Bodies that import,...

The Japanese contemporary horror cinema has for ten years triggered a renewal of the kind of ghost films. The author approaches this phenomenon by looking, through sequences analysis, at a spectacular method of address: fanciful attraction-fanciful. The proposed concept takes into account both the s...

In the theory of cinema genre, horror films are at the forefront of the list. It is one of the oldest genres that saw the light with the early emergence of cinema, taking advantage of literary works, especially Gothic literature and it continues to this day, but the third millennium has seen a marke...

Throughout the work of director and co-creator David Lynch images of horror recur, as the mundane and the ordinary becomes ominous and terrifying. The home and the self–central to feelings of safety and security–are destabilized in Lynch’s works, revealed as inherently unstable and subject to consta...

This article examines the ways in which the TV series Stranger Things adopts selected tropes of the Indian captivity narrative and of the Puritan Weltanschauung to build a horror narrative that many found to be relevant, relatable, and enthralling. Studying Stranger Things’ system of selective citat...

A self-taught filmmaker working with very low budgets, fascinated with Hollywood’s glamor as well as exploitation and underground cinema, John Waters has appropriated techniques and modes of production, distribution and promotion specific to exploitation from the beginning of his career in the late...

Fairy tales and their adaptations transgress established social, cultural and temporal boundaries. This paper examines Matthew Bright’s Freeway (1996), an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood that deliberately mirrors this transgression by setting the film within the generic type of horror cinema. I...

Starting with the definition of horror as a literary genre the core story of which is based on a meeting with threatening Otherness whose influx into consensual reality and it’s tacit normality creates unrest and awakens fear in the protagonists and the audience, this paper defines the three key par...

The comic book is a product of mass culture. It got deeply rooted in American and Western European popular culture in the 1970s. In France, this type of sequential art told in pictorial stories was presented in daily papers ( bande dessinee) and developed humorously-told threads o f the plot. In the...

Stanley Kubrick can be described as a metageneric director, since his major works tend to overthrow and reconstruct inherited conventions of the relevant film type (the horror in Shining, the historical film in Barry Lyndon and so on). Kubrick’s most intense and complex metageneric analysis is scien...

<strong>Introduction </strong> <br />Human resources in firms are one of the factors to gain competitive advantage. Hence, successful firms use these advantages effectively which are the valuable capital of firm and elevate their firm through enhancement of their capability and motivation. Although...

This study, the result of qualitative empirical research, aims to highlight the disinterest that social sciences, and sociology in particular, have shown for the emotional dimension of sociability. This lack of interest, which can be understood as an expression of the cultural ethos of modernity its...

The article reveals the connections of contemporary Russian literature (the late 20th – early 21st century) and the mythologized concept “Turgenev”, which carries a semantic load of creativity and biography of the classic, raises questions of the influence of the classic’s image and his works on wor...

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean has become notorious in the early twenty-first century through a series of migrant disasters which, until the events of 2015, came to typify the scale and horror of forced migration on a scale not witnessed since the Second World War. This ar...

The articles here presented are representative of the debates about the various transformational aspects of film studies, fostering the discussion about the transformations and interactions between national and international narrative forms, the interrelations between film and literature, and film w...

The growing success of the epidemic horror films needs explanation. One answer is that the fans of the genre are ready to endure horror in order to see and know what horror the idea of epidemics can inspire them with. The horror epidemic films are variations and revisions on a story which shows char...

In early 2014, several articles appeared proclaiming the rise to prominence of a new subgenre of the crime novel: “chick noir,” which included popular books like Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, and Before We Met. However, there was also resistance to the new genre label from critics who viewed it as bel...

Based on a vast body of police novels, the study proposes to identify the linguistic properties and textual functions of crime scene expression; the method adopted combines corpus language tools with stylistic work. The aim is to show how the structures in which this crime scene appears determine st...

In 1950, Turing proposed to answer the question “can machines think” by staging an “imitation game” where a hidden computer attempts to mislead a human interrogator into believing it is human. While the cybercrime of bots defrauding people by posing as Nigerian princes and lascivious e-girls indicat...