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Analyzing Societies' Obsession with Horror and Crime Films

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Whether fights to the death, or a masked murderer chasing an unwilling teen, viewers are seemingly drawn to human suffering. This thesis will examine the blurring of lines between traditional horror and crime films to better understand how both films provide a similar experience, as well as apply traditional film…

Whether fights to the death, or a masked murderer chasing an unwilling teen, viewers are seemingly drawn to human suffering. This thesis will examine the blurring of lines between traditional horror and crime films to better understand how both films provide a similar experience, as well as apply traditional film theories on pleasurable viewership to both genres, in an attempt to discover viewers’ attraction to the perverse.

ContributorsBenavidez, Markus A (Author) / Miller, April (Thesis director) / Mack, Robert (Committee member) / School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)

Created2020-05

Haunted Capital: Underlying Economic Anxieties of Haunted House Stories in America and Abroad

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An analysis of the relationship between haunted house films and economic anxieties of different cultures and time periods.

ContributorsRobertson, Travis (Author) / Miller, April (Thesis director) / Mack, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Comm (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor)

Created2022-05

Under Still Faces: A Gothic Horror Story

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This story ---Under Still Faces--- is a horror fiction story. It is influenced primarily by classic, gothic literature with themes from the horror and true crime genres. The story includes critical/theoretical concepts, literary devices, and techniques from gothic literature primarily including Freud’s Uncanny, uneven framing, and an unreliable narrator. It…

This story ---Under Still Faces--- is a horror fiction story. It is influenced primarily by classic, gothic literature with themes from the horror and true crime genres. The story includes critical/theoretical concepts, literary devices, and techniques from gothic literature primarily including Freud’s Uncanny, uneven framing, and an unreliable narrator. It employs themes from Edgar Allan Poe’s novels as well as his thesis regarding plot in The Philosophy of Composition. Particular descriptive themes in conjunction with the use of gothic elements surprise the reader about the story’s true ending similar to Poe’s The Oval Portrait. Included is an analysis of the literary decisions made in the piece to evoke specific reactions and feelings from the reader.

ContributorsRaines, Elliana (Author) / Fette, Don (Thesis director) / Mack, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Department of Economics (Contributor) / Department of Finance (Contributor)

Created2022-05

Raines Thesis Project (Spring 2022)

ContributorsRaines, Elliana (Author, Co-author) / Fette, Don (Thesis director) / Mack, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)

Created2022-05

Raines Thesis Project Presentation (Spring 2022)

ContributorsRaines, Elliana (Author, Co-author) / Fette, Don (Thesis director) / Mack, Robert (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)

Created2022-05

Darkness in Literature and Where it Takes Form: How Places and Evil Change the Meaning of Darkness

DescriptionIn this thesis I explore the many meanings of darkness and how it acts as an element of a place. Exploring different literary themes in connection with horror, I discuss what horror does for a reader and the ways in which this is achieved through literature.

ContributorsAsoera, Collin (Author) / Jakubzcak, Laura (Thesis director) / Kunkel, Ken (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor)

Created2022-05

Metamorphosis Behind the Closet Door: Analysis of Queer identities through Monstrous Transformations

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Queer individuals are frequently perceived as ‘the Other’ and thus, ‘the Other’ that exists in the imagination of writers as creatures and monsters to terrify audiences frequently take on queer characteristics. However, to examine these monsters, their transformations, and the communities that connect to them further, we must step away…

Queer individuals are frequently perceived as ‘the Other’ and thus, ‘the Other’ that exists in the imagination of writers as creatures and monsters to terrify audiences frequently take on queer characteristics. However, to examine these monsters, their transformations, and the communities that connect to them further, we must step away from the cis, straight view of ‘normality’ and attempt to discuss the creature from within. This paper aims to examine the experiences of individual queer identities as they transition out of assumed heteronormativity and into ‘the Other’ themselves through the monsters that each identity aligns itself with narratively.

Contributorsvan Doren, Claire (Author) / Irish, Jennifer (Thesis director) / Himberg, Julia (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Comm (Contributor)

Created2023-12

The Influence of Psychology on the Human Perception of Horror and Violence in Film.

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Through a research essay, I broke down the psychological reactions viewers experience in the horror genre through a Freudian framework. Utilizing this research, I wrote the first act of a screenplay and a summary of the remaining acts.

ContributorsKeegan, Tierney (Author) / Scott, Jason (Thesis director) / Bernstein, Gregory (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor)

Created2023-05