Cinema, Fear and Horror: Some Mechanisms of Identification
The essay explores the questions of fear, fantastic and horror in cinema, concentrating on the problems of “normality”, perception, representation and the viewer’s different forms of identification. The “The Silence of the Lambs” is taken as a significant case-study.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Governare la paura |
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| Online Access: | https://governarelapaura.unibo.it/article/view/2544 |
| Summary: | The essay explores the questions of fear, fantastic and horror in cinema, concentrating on the problems of “normality”, perception, representation and the viewer’s different forms of identification. The “The Silence of the Lambs” is taken as a significant case-study. |
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| ISSN: | 1974-4935 |