An examination of the Rocky Horror Picture Show illustrates the various ways in which the cinema is closely linked to religious experience. The audience participates in the narrative of the film on both conscious and unconscious levels in the same way as the ancients participated in their myths during ritual ceremonies. Moreover, the audience shifts its mode of cognition in order to appreciate as truth the fantastic events which occur both on and off the screen. Finally, I argue that cult films function as parable in dominant cultures and therefore as primary manifestations of the "counter-civil religion". In this way secular films have more profound religious implications than is at first apparent.

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Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-109) and filmography (leaf 110). Also available via the World Wide Web.

While fantasy as a genre is often dismissed as frivolous and inappropriate, it is highly relevant in representing and working through trauma. The fantasy genre presents spectators with images of the unsettled and unresolved, taking them on a journey through a world in which the familiar is rendered unfamiliar. It positions itself as an in-between, while the consequential disturbance of recognized world orders lends this genre to relating stories of trauma themselves characterized by hauntings, disputed memories, and irresolution. Through an examination of films from around the world and their depictions of individual and collective traumas through the fantastic, this thesis outlines how fantasy succeeds in representing and challenging histories of violence, silence, and irresolution. Further, it also examines how the genre itself is transformed in relating stories that are not yet resolved. While analysing the modes in which the fantasy genre mediates and intercedes trauma narratives, this research contributes to a wider recognition of an understudied and underestimated genre, as well as to discourses on how trauma is narrated and negotiated.

Originally presented as the author's thesis--Universität München, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation explores the embodied and sensory dimensions of fantastic film, those elements that are generally held up in contrast to and, often, in excess of, narrative structure. I suggest a departure from the traditional approach to genre study which has been preoccupied with narrative formulas, themes, and iconographies. My goal is not to dispense with those kinds of analyses but to complement them and, importantly, to point to some neglected dimensions of genre pleasure. I propose to transform the presumably excessive pleasures of the fantastic genre into something essential to it. First, I explore the disavowal or avoidance of embodied sensation within popular genre criticism. I then turn to critique existing models of film reception, focusing particularly upon a critique of the ocularcentric or visualist framework. From this critique, I am able to suggest some criteria for an alternative theoretical model based upon embodiment. I propose a theoretical framework based, first, on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who demonstrates that human subjects are constituted materially and culturally through their perceptual relations within the world. Second, I rely upon a further interpretation of this phenomenology by the American philosopher Don Ihde. Ihde’s work, configured as “postphenomenology,” draws variously from technoscience studies, the philosophy of science, feminist, and posthumanist theory, and sketches a system for the application of an experimental phenomenology. With this method, I explore various embodied, sensational aspects of fantastic genre films, i.e., spectacle, gore, musical genre conventions. I describe and relate these aspects of fantastic film to other cultural venues, exploring common themes and structures among them. From this, I draw some conclusions as to the nature of these sensational genre pleasures for embodied human individuals. Simultaneously, I consider the possibilities for embodied difference among individuals. / text

Thèse (M.A.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005. / Bibliogr.: f. 39-40. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

「藝術旦后」余麗珍（1923-2004）以香港為根據地開展的演藝事業歷時很長，由登台演戲至拍攝「粤劇戲曲片」，穩紮穩打地縱橫藝壇演戲三十多載，其作品標誌著香港五、六十年代粤劇和電影的發展。 / 筆者將余麗珍在1957至1961年間──粤劇戲曲片創製最顛峰時期拍攝的十七齣電影歸為「斷頭與精怪美人」及「紮腳英雌」兩個系列，它們能充分展現粤劇和電影藝術如何妥善揉合。透過分析這些作品即能整理出此電影類型的特色，並從中窺探余麗珍別於同代旦行伶人的演藝造脂，繼而確立她對開創神怪粤劇戲曲片的貢獻。 / 余麗珍素來以歌唱「聲」藝和功架「技」藝譽藝壇，其聲、藝必須透過演繹人物角色才能顯現。納入研究範圍的文本都是她的代表作，她在這些電影中飾演的飛頭者、無頭鬼、精怪美人和紮腳英雌都能自成一格，以性別角度切入分析，即可得知這些角色隨著劇情推進都能夠跳出社會既有性別樊籬。當余麗珍演繹這些獨特的角色時，亦很大程度上挑戰了觀眾對正印花旦的常規性想像。 / Known as “The Queen of the Art of Dan (藝術旦后), Yu Lizhen（1923-2004） was a Cantonese opera actress based mainly in Hong Kong. Yu had actively performed both on the stage and on the screen for over three decades. Her performances, especially those in the Cantonese opera-films (粤劇戲曲片) , marked a new stage of development of both the Cantonese operas (粤劇) and films (電影) in the 1950s and 1960s. / In this research, seventeen Cantonese opera-films by Yu Lizhen screened from 1957 to 1961, the historical peak of the production of this film genre, will be categorized into two series, “The Headless and Spirit Beauty and “The Foot-binding Heroines. They are excellent examples of this film genre which demonstrate very well the ways Cantonese opera art and film art can be blended perfectly together. An analysis of Yu’s performances does not only showcase the characteristics of Cantonese opera-film genre and how distinctive her performances had been in comparison with her contemporaries, but also further establishes her pioneering role in introducing supernatural elements to Cantonese opera-films. / Famed for her singing talent and artistic martial skills on stage, Yu Lizhen was able to bring the characters alive in her signature works, including “The Headless and Spirit Beauty and “The Foot-binding Heroines film series. Her casting in the roles with the flying head, as headless ghost, spirit beauty and foot-binding heroines was original and unique. Analyzing from the gender perspective, each of these characters actually goes beyond the established gender stereotypes in society as each story advances. To a large extent, her performed characters in these films transgress the general viewers’ expectation and imagination of the principal huadan (正印花旦). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 陳曉婷. / "2012年9月". / "2012 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-207). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Chen Xiaoting. / Chapter 第一章 --- ：導言 / Chapter 1.1 --- 研究方法 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- 歷史研究：香港粤劇與電影發展及余麗珍 --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- 類型研究：類型電影與類型人物 --- p.7 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- 性別研究：性別與性別氣質的表演 --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究對象及範圍：余麗珍及其「粤劇戲曲片」──「斷頭與精怪美人」及「紮腳英雌」電影系列 --- p.11 / Chapter 第二章 --- ：香港粤劇電影發展概說及余麗珍的粤劇戲曲片 / Chapter 2.1 --- 從香港粤劇發展概況看粤劇戲曲片的生成脈絡 --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2 --- 余麗珍演藝事業從舞台到銀幕的過渡 --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3 --- 「斷頭與精怪美人」及「紮腳英雌」電影系列：分類與內容簡介 --- p.46 / Chapter 第三章 --- ：余麗珍的「神怪」戲與「神怪」粤劇戲曲片 / Chapter 3.1 --- 余麗珍的「聲」、「藝」、「色」及其在粤劇戲曲片的展現 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 余麗珍的「聲」演 --- p.60 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 余麗珍的演「藝」 --- p.75 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 余麗珍的遜「色」到出「色」的任務轉移 --- p.88 / Chapter 3.2 --- 余麗珍的「神怪」題材運用 --- p.94 / Chapter 3.3 --- 余麗珍的粤劇戲曲片對電影剪接和特技的應用與「神怪」題材的展現 --- p.112 / Chapter 第四章 --- ：余麗珍在粤劇戲曲片演繹的女性角色及其性別扮演 / Chapter 4.1 --- 「斷頭與精怪美人」電影系列：飛頭者、無頭鬼與精怪美人 --- p.134 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 超生越死的飛頭者和無頭鬼 --- p.139 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 佑護致福的精怪美人 --- p.155 / Chapter 4.2 --- 「紮腳英雌」電影系列：剛柔並重的紮腳英雌 --- p.167 / Chapter 總結 --- 一代名伶余麗珍──最「神怪」最「狠」的正印花旦 --- p.190 / 參考文獻 --- p.198

[ES] El mexicano Guillermo del Toro, ha contribuido a enriquecer la estética y mitología del cine fantástico y de terror. Gracias a los seres dentro de sus filmes, e inspirados en los espectros de las pinturas y grabados de Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, el realizador presenta, mediante ensoñaciones maravillosas, los traumas y conflictos que se han arrastrado durante la historia; sobre todo en épocas de conflictos bélicos y sociales. La investigación que aquí se plantea, busca reivindicar el valor estético y ético de la obra de Goya dentro del cine contemporáneo. Así se propone un recorrido iconológico comparativo que rescata la influencia del arte del aragonés en los largometrajes del latinoamericano. / [CA] El director mexicà Guillermo del Toro, ha contribuït a enriquir l'estètica i la mitologia del cinema fantàstic i de terror. Gràcies als éssers dins dels seus films, i inspirats en els espectres pictòrics de les pintures i gravats de Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, el realitzador presenta, mitjançant ensomnis meravellosos, els traumes i conflictes que s'han arrossegat durant la història; sobretot en èpoques de conflictes bèl·lics i socials. La investigació que ací es planteja, vol reivindicar el valor estètic i ètic de l'obra de Goya dins del cinema contemporani. Així es proposa un recorregut iconològic comparatiu que rescata la influència de l'art de l'aragonés en els llargmetratges del llatinoamericà. / [EN] Guillermo del Toro, the Latin American director, has contributed to enriching the aesthetics and mythology of fantasy and horror films. Thanks to the beings in his films, inspired by the pictorial spectrums of the paintings and engravings of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, the director presents, through fantastic reveries, the traumas and conflicts that have dragged through history, especially in times of war and social conflicts. The research proposed here seeks to vindicate the aesthetic and ethical value of Goya's work within contemporary cinema. Thus, a comparative iconological tour is proposed that rescues the influence of the art of the Aragonese in the Latin-American movies. / Ponce Tarre, JE. (2023). Totalitarismo y ficción. Goya y sus espectros en el cine de Guillermo del Toro [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/194753