FILM 3420D Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synesthesia, Sexploitation Film, Orgasm
4 Apr 2016
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Uncanny as the return (reconfirmation) of abandoned childhood beliefs. Horror film monsters as uncanny: metaphorical embodiments of abandoned childhood beliefs. The horror of monsters both particular and universal, historically specific and transhistrorical. The initially sceptical viewer turning into a believer. Uncanny: seemingly supernatural event eventually explained by laws of nature. I nearly reached the point of believing . Give an example of a movie that proposes this dilemma, and explain what choice you made and why. Unfortunately, bava doesn"t quite manage to get rid of all vestiges of characterization or psychological realism so the film falls short of being the symphony of violence it might have been (the aurum film encyclopaedia) Accusation: unlike classical us horror the italian films they lack imagination, taste, and restraint . More extreme than the british hammer films or corman"s american gothic horror cycle. Themes: torture, necrophilia, incest, premature burial, violent sexuality.
