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Comparative Analysis of Film Directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...

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...

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...

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...

Suspense in The Shining by Stephen King

demented that he becomes a vessel for their agenda. Beginning with the setting, King has executed a masterful scene of susp...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

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...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

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...

Horror Cinematic Genre

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

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...

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 ...

Overview of the Holocaust

of these individuals were dispatched into labor camps by the Nazis, where many died shortly thereafter of various causes including...

Shirley Jackson's Subtle Use of Horror

this a model of an extremely traditional patriarchal society, with the men in charge and the women and children following them obe...

Freeze Frame: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths' Depiction of the Vietnam War

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

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...

The Impacts of World War I on the Battlefield and Back Home

The First World War had impacts not just on the areas embroiled in the warfare but on the...

Protest at Tiananmen Square

The Tiananmen Square incident that occurred on June 6, 1989 in Beijing China epitomized the desperateness of many Chinese...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

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...

20th Century and Gothic Horror - A Comparison

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...

"The Life of Pi" and Meaningful Narratives

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Life of Pi". The value of narrative and story in providing comfort from the horror...

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 ...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for Children

In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...

Overview of a Family's Holocaust Horrors in Tale I of Art Spiegelman's Maus

In ten pages this paper examines Art Spiegelman's cartoon book in a consideration of how one family managed to survive the Holocau...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

Inferior Film Sequel Scream 2

In five pages this paper examines the reviews of critics regarding this inferior first sequel to the blockbuster and acclaimed hor...