Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014 / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T21:04:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 329053.pdf: 1341507 bytes, checksum: d00163e78ad924bf591e9c3fd8125b5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Abstract: This dissertation aims at analyzing female representations in two film productions of the North American horror cinema, specifically of its subgenre slasher films, namely Halloween, directed by John Carpenter (1978) and The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme (1991). My main theoretical framework is film, representation, gender, feminist and queer theories (Butler, 1990, 1993; Clover, 1989; Dika, 1985, Halberstam, 1995; Hall 1973, 1997; Mulvey, 1975, 1981; 2006; Rockoff, 2006; Weedon, 1995). My hypothesis is that the figure of the final girl, in the two films selected for analysis, is not progressive as suggested by the author Carol Clover in her work Men, Women and Chainsaws (1989). On the contrary, the two female characters are represented, in the narrative, as subjugated by the patriarchal system that has been conventionalized in the slasher subgenre. In order to provide arguments for my hypothesis, I analyze general aspects of both form and content of the two films, as well as specific scenes, using the cinematic elements of mise-en-scène, props, characterization, editing and lighting in order to obtain relevant results for my research.<br> / Esta tese de doutorado objetiva analisar as representações femininas em duas produções cinematográficas do cinema de horror Norte-americano, especificamente do seu subgênero slasher films, intituladas Halloween, dirigido por John Carpenter (1978) e The Silenceof the Lambs, dirigido por Jonathan Demme (1991). Para tal análise, eu utilizo como referencial teórico as teorias de estudos de cinema, representação, gênero, feministas e queer (Butler, 1990, 1993; Clover, 1989; Dika, 1985; Halberstam, 1995; Hall, 1973, 1997; Halberstam, 1995; Mulvey, 1975; 1981; 2006; Rockoff, 2006; Weedon, 1995) para compor os meus argumentos. A minha hipótese consiste no fato de que a figura da final girl não é inovadora como sugere a autora Carol Clover em sua obra Men, Women and Chainsaws (1989). Ao contrário, a personagem feminina é representada na narrativa como subjugada pelo sistema patriarcal que se convencionou em filmes do gênero. Para a investigação da minha hipótese, foram feitas análises gerais dos filmes propostos, tanto considerando suas formas quanto conteúdos, bem como a de cenas específicas, utilizando-se dos elementos de cinema tais como mise-èn-scene, elementos de cena, caracterização de personagens, edição e luz a fim de obter resultados relevantes para a minha pesquisa.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-20T21:32:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 191119.pdf: 1116283 bytes, checksum: 1c025fb56f4b4cbf5b45f2d61f6584c1 (MD5) / James B. Twitchell sugere que a arte do horror se desenvolve no momento de insegurança comunal. E este é o caso dos monstros ingleses do fim de século, que apareceram no momento de profundo questionamento da cultura da sociedade vitoriana (50). Os fantasmas de The Turn of the Screw podem ser incluídos nesse grupo, já que expressam um discurso anti-hegemônico que se opõe ao discurso da governanta, que é submetido ao discurso hegemônico e patriarcal do mestre. Minha hipótese é que a novela ilustra o confronto dessas

abstract: This dissertation analyzes three films from Mexico, Spain, and Argentina--Kilómetro 31, El orfanato, and Aparecidos (2007)--and their interplay with the historicism that has traditionally served as the default referent for "reality" in Western narrative. While grounding my approach in temporal critique, I borrow from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and queer theory to explore ways in which ghosts and the rhetorical figure of the family are manipulated in each national imaginary as a strategy for negotiating volatility within symbolic order: a tactic that can either naturalize or challenge normative discourses. As a literary and cinematic trope, ghosts are particularly useful vehicles for the exploration of national imaginaries and the dominant or competing cultural attitudes towards a country's history, and thus, the articulation of a present political reality. The rhetorical figure of the family is also pivotal in this process as a mechanism for expressing national allegories, for articulating generational anxieties about a nation's relationship with its history, and for organizing societies and social subjects as such, interpellating them into or excluding them from national imaginaries according to its grammar/logic. The proposed trajectory through these films will help facilitate a study of the potential of these rhetorical figures to either reinscribe or question two of the most fundamental processes that go into the cartography of ideology: the imposition of (a) time and the negotiation of social subjectivity within it. Competing political narratives may use any number of rhetorical strategies to position themselves in time to promote their agendas while continuing to reinforce the overall framework that determines the parameters of what is visible, and thus debatable. As temporal anomalies who are defined by their (in)visibility, ghosts can be used to either reinforce this framework or they can be used to articulate alternative relationships to time, and consequently, other political possibilities. Ghosts, families, and children are especially volatile rhetorical figures because of their potential to expose the mechanisms of societal organization--the construction of social subjects through their relationship to the time and the families of which they are presumably products--as negotiable processes rather than self-evident truths. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Spanish 2013

Orientador : Marcius Cesar Soares Freire / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T01:45:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Piedade_LuciodeFranciscisdosReis_M.pdf: 11474244 bytes, checksum: 1378d36d591ee788a4b653a3196ea83c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Resumo: o presente trabalho é uma investigação das relações entre o cinema de horror e o que se convencionou chamarfilmes exploítatíon- filão vasto e prolífico que se desenvolveu à margemda indústria principal. Através de uma retrospectiva histórica, pretendemos estabelecer os pontos em que se cruzam essas tendências, na exploração do horror explícito - o assim chamado "sangue-etripas" -, do sexo e da violência. Vamos destacar a evolução do modo de exibição desses elementos e os marcosdeterminantes que configuraram o período que compreende as décadas de 50, 60 e 70 como uma época de ouro para o horror e o exploítatíonno cinema, centralizando a pesquisa no eixo Inglaterra-EstadosUnidos, Europa e Brasil / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Multimeios

With twelve films released over the last thirty years, the Friday the 13th series has proved a popular mainstay of the slasher sub-genre of horror, in spite of negative critical reception and minimal academic engagement. The academic discourses that do address the series often frame their arguments based on socio-political function, socioeconomic platforms, psychoanalytic traditions, and cultural relevance. While there is some work that attempts to understand the generic positioning and function of the Friday the 13th films, little work has engaged with the film texts in order to understand and explain the form and structure of each instalment in the series. This thesis not only aims to explore and describe the aesthetic form of the slasher sub-genre of horror, but also to argue the central significance of perspective on the aesthetic effect of the slasher. Perspective, a term that builds upon theories of point of view and subjectivity, permeates the formal design of the slasher film. Therefore, this relationship will be the driving focus of the analysis undertaken with regards to the Friday the 13th films, which will include chapters focusing on specific uses of the camera, sound, editing, and sequences creating a narrative understanding of preceding films in the series. Following this analysis, the aesthetic development of the Friday the 13th series will be contextualised within contemporary generic trends, demonstrating to what extent this franchise is representative of the slasher, and where it proves anomalous or progressive. This will not only demonstrate the role the Friday the 13th films play within the slasher, but also how the slasher has aesthetically evolved over more than three decades. Ultimately, the relevance of this analysis and formal historicizing will be suggestive of the wider context of film studies and cinema as a whole.

Orientador: Lucia Nagib / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T15:40:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernandes_CaioAguilar_M.pdf: 5517469 bytes, checksum: 8e69ad0e2cb08f4054be2c7f1e195212 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa cinco filmes escritos e dirigidos pelo cineasta canadense David Cronenberg: Calafrios (Shivers, Canadá, 1975); Enraivecida, na fúria do sexo (Rabid, Canadá, 1976); Os filhos do medo (The Brood, Canadá, 1979); Scanners, sua mente pode destruir (Scanners, Canadá, 1980) e Videodrome, a síndrome do vídeo (Videodrome, Canadá, 1982). Segundo entendemos, esses filmes concentram as principais obsessões do diretor, delineando seus traços autorais: o corpo humano como espaço de manifestação do horror, a ciência como instrumento de modificação/destruição e a intensa visibilidade dada à essas mesmas mutações corporais. Isto significa pensar a poética ou política da carne em Cronenberg: os deslocamentos dos órgãos humanos ao longo do corpo, o mito de Frankenstein atualizado e os limites do visível apresentados em sua obra. Nesse sentido, o cinema de Cronenberg ultrapassa as limitações do filme de gênero em função de sua organicidade imagética e temática, a qual articula de forma coerente o horror, suas causas e formas de manifestação. Ao mesmo tempo, seus filmes podem também ser interpretados como uma metáfora da própria condição pós-moderna / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Multimeios

Gender representation in the horror genre has many interesting discussions surrounding it through multiple perspectives such as psychoanalysis and culture. This article intends to expand the investigation of how female characters are portrayed in horror games. The research on female representation will investigate the potential connections between horror cinema and horror games in the survival horror game Fatal Frame (2001, Koei Tecmo), the first title of a series that is iconic f0r drawing inspiration from Japanese mythology and horror tropes while simultaneously using a large cast of female characters. To gather information about the audience to support the game analysis, an online survey will be released targeting players of the games. Thereafter, recorded, non-commentary footage of the first game, Fatal Frame (2001), will be observed and textually analysed through a framework with data points, based on the background of psychoanalysis, horror cinema, culture, and game theory.

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The project analyzes the relationship and role that music plays in building tension in horror movies. To investigate the topic, three types of film music were identified: traditional, ambient, and soundtrack. Subsequently, nine horror scenes were chosen that were believed to induce tension, with three being traditional scores, three being ambient scores, and three being soundtracks. Each traditional and ambient score and soundtrack clip was from a different horror subgenre that included supernatural, body, and slasher horror. The music of these nine clips was then analyzed using spectrograms to create tension arcs that were compared to the visuals in the scene. An experiment was then conducted that took these nine scenes and separated them into three variables that included sound+video, video only, and sound only. Participants were placed into one of three groups associated with these variables at random, and were asked to rate their feelings of tension in each clip via a tension slider. Their responses were then compared to a theoretical curve that was created from the analysis of the clips. The results showed that there was a small correlation between the theoretical response and the responses between sound & video. There was another small correlation between sound+video and sound. This showed that music created tension in a similar way to the complete scene, except for in the case of soundtracks, and that music is possibly a larger contributor to tension than the visuals of a scene.