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Horror Story 'Carmilla' by Sheridan LeFanu

In three pages this paper discusses the horror and vampire influence of this tale and Bram Stoker's Dracula. There are 2 sources ...

Film To Kill a Mockingbird and the Impact of Social Norms on the Judicial System

In five pages this paper discusses the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird in a consideration of how social norms prevai...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

A Critical Review and Analysis of the Film, Halloween

the horrific murders of her school friends tips off the audience that she is the deranged killers elusive victim. The audience is...

Two Prominent Cult Movies

as seen in the more recent Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic appeals to audiences because it portrays a different perspe...

Modern Film and the Impact of 1960s' Social Realism

In eight pages this paper examines how 1960s' social realism influenced such films as Loach's Poor Cow, and Brooks' The Profession...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Reviews of Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors Compared

Zaks experience that the challenge of using outdated and outmoded expressions in a musical were too much for Zaks. He says, "The s...

Element of Horror in Fiction Stories 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole

style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

Child Labor and William Blake's Poetry

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

Roberto Rossellini's Film Europa, Europa and Its Psychological Impact

Perel was no more than a young boy when he was forced to fend for his own existence. Realizing that he had to either fight agains...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Building of Mystery, Suspense, and Horror

quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...

Positive and Negative Aspects of TV Violence

In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

Vera Brittain and the Death of Youth

found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

“The Little Shop of Horrors”

Center 2005). Seymour, of course, wants Audrey and one day when Orin ODs on the laughing gas he uses to get high, Seymour feeds hi...

LIONSGATE AND TARGET MARKETS

its production and distribution down to a science, when it comes to marketing movies, there is always room for improvement. Lionsg...

Horror as a Genre

As We Think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism" author Steffen Hantke explores the horror genre as it exists in the contempor...