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John, Merin Susan. "Analysis of Memory, Gender, and Identity in Psychological Thrillers with Specific Reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound and James Mangold’s Identity." Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (November 3, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/mejress.v1i2.9.
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Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the portrayal and presentation of memory, gender, and identity in selected psychological thrillers. Approach/Methodology/Design: The selected films are Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound and James Mangold’s Identity. For the analysis of these films, the researcher employs both narrative and structural approaches; thematic analysis, psychoanalysis, and also feminist film theory. Findings: The results of the analysis show that apart from building suspense and mysteries with the identity issue, these thrillers question the stereotypes and inequality in society through the female characters for the consumerist audience. Hence, these films attempt to break the chains of legitimated stereotypes in the society which create binaries in the lives of people. Practical Implications: The portrayal of illness in psychological thrillers has attracted a lot more audience to seats. Dissociative elements such as memory and identity of the mind perhaps have permeated the film-going experience. The paper showcases these aspects in the selected films. Originality/value: The picturization of the fading identity and the double personality of the characters are central to the interior experience. The capturing of Amnesia and its related themes of memory, identity, and distributed consciousness are common materials in recent films because they can stretch to basic humanistic concerns and contemporary psycho-social issues.
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van Teeffelen, Toine. "Scripts and Projects as Modes of Understanding Political Actions: The Representation of Palestinians in Bestselling Literature." Journal of Narrative and Life History 2, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 163–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.2.2.05scr.
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Abstract This article analyzes the representation of Palestinian actions in Western bestsell-ing thrillers. Most of these actions can be understood through the application of scripts—cognitive structures of stereotypical action sequences. It is argued that the scriptal representations activate causal schemas of Palestinians and Arabs at both a psychological and a social level. The concept of script is set against that of project, characterized by a narrative understanding. It is shown how the need to make a story interesting and thus not completely stereotypical is met by, among others, the amplification of aspects of threatening scripts, and by a tension producing ambivalence toward Palestinian nationalism. In almost all cases a scriptal understanding remains privileged. (Qualitative Psychology, Cultural Studies)
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Novaković, Nikola. "To Laugh or to Cry? Ambiguity and Humour in Jason's Graphic Novels." Libri et liberi 11, no. 1 (September 23, 2022): 51–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.11.1.3.
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The paper offers a reading of Jason’s use of sparsity, seriousness, and reduction as a concealment of a technique that is based on multifaceted ambiguity involving the blending of genres, a playfully intertextual attitude, and surprising emotional depth of character and story. It discusses the connection between humour and visual, textual, and structural ambiguity in Jason’s works, as well as ambivalence in the reader’s response, illustrates Jason’s combination of incongruous genres and simultaneous employment of motifs from children’s literature and various genre movies (such as science fiction, crime thrillers, heist movies, and horrors), and explores Jason’s technique of subverting expectations of comic relief by withholding certain structural parts of a joke (typically a punchline) or inserting an unexpected element (such as psychological depth).
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Durov, Viktor. "REPRESENTATION OF A JUDICIAL PROCESS IN AMERICAN CINEMA (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FILM “A TIME TO KILL”, 1996)." Культурный код, no. 2024-2 (2024): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36945/2658-3852-2024-2-20-34.
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The article analyzes the problems of persisting racism in the US judicial system and its reflection in cinema. The study is based on the analysis of the film “A Time to Kill”. The main method is system analysis. The author notes the autobiographical nature of the plot in the film. The main themes raised in the film were racial discrimination, the right of revenge, and judicial execution. The article reveals how visual images, musical accompaniment, and the cast realize the director’s vision. The legal and psychological research involved confirms the realism of the trial in the southern states of the United States presented in the film directed by Joel Schumacher. In addition, the promising use of legal thrillers in the educational process at law faculties is noted.
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Platten, David. "Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers." French Cultural Studies 21, no. 4 (November 2010): 267–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155810378573.
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The appearance in 2003 of 21 Georges Simenon novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade reaffirmed a widespread consensus that French-language crime fiction, especially the roman noir with its vigil over the political and social ills of the nation, had secured its position as an important vector of French cultural history. Its sister genre, the thriller, has fared less well. Justly criticised for its expedient style and limited intellectual horizons, the thriller continues to appeal to a mass readership drawn from all sectors of society.This article locates its attractions in the ways in which we might once have engaged with the adventure stories of our collective youth that furnished our first solitary contact with literary fiction. It argues that our response to narrative suspense in adventure stories consumed in early adolescence is later rekindled and developed in the more adult thrillers of the modern age. Working within a conceptual framework that includes the psychologically based thrillers of Boileau-Narcejac and Sébastian Japrisot juxtaposed with the adrenalin rush of events supplied by Dan Brown and Maxime Chattam, it analyses the different modalities of suspense and their concomitant reading pleasures, concluding that the thriller meets the expectations not of a certain group of readers but of a certain type of reading experience.
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Edwards, Makayla. "Taking the "Psycho" out of "Psycho-Killer"." Digital Literature Review 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2023): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.10.1.37-49.
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“Psycho”, “maniac”, and “madman” are all words that are found to be synonymous with serial killers and criminal activity. For decades, the media has perpetuated an extremely harmful image that those suffering from mental illness are violent and dangerous. These portrayals can be found across mediums from fictional books and movies to docuseries and podcasts. In the realm of fiction, specifically, some of the most harmful depictions can be found in horror films. These films tend to paint their villains to be caricatures of various psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), and narcissistic personality disorder. These misrepresentations are not only grossly exaggerated but also highly inaccurate. In this piece, I will explore and expose the negative distortions of mental illness in various horror films. The scope will focus on two of the most influential psychological thrillers in the industry: Psycho and The Shining. These films each depict an antagonist who displays exaggerated traits indicative of mental illness. By deconstructing and comparing these traits with modern research on the mental illnesses they are meant to represent, I will expose the inaccuracies of these portrayals. Furthermore, I will outline the lasting impacts of these inaccuracies on both the public perceptions of mental illness, as well as help-seeking among individuals suffering from psychological disorders. Even if the characters in these popular films are fictional, the stigma they direct toward mental illness is very real and must be addressed.
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Harbar, Iryna. "MULTI-LEVEL VERBAL MARKERS OF SUGGESTION IN PROSECUTION ATTORNEYS’ OPENING STATEMENTS (IN THE SCOPE OF MODERN AMERICAN LEGAL THRILLERS)." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 10(78) (February 27, 2020): 146–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-10(78)-146-149.
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The article sets out to justify the author’s opinion on the fact that the main peculiarity of the prosecution attorneys’ opening statements is their power of suggestion, i.e. exerting emotional and psychological influence on the jury with the purpose of changing their emotions, feelings and train of thoughts in favour of the attorney and their client. A lexical-semantic classification of multi-level verbal markers of suggestion has been worked out in the article under consideration to show which language units prosecution attorneys give preference to in order to exert the influence of suggestion on the jury. The classification in question shows that the notion of suggestion exists on all speech levels: phonetic, morphological, lexical-semantic and syntactic, with lexical-semantic being the most abundant in prosecution attorneys’ opening statements. Verbal markers of suggestion on lexical-semantic level were divided into those of direct and indirect nomination. Verbal markers of suggestion on phonetic, morphological and syntactic levels perform only supplementary function in exerting the influence of suggestion on the jury members. The article concludes that the prosecution attorneys purposely use a great amount of multi-level verbal markers of suggestion at the same time to have the massive impact on the jury’s thoughts, emotions, feelings, attitudes. The classification under consideration has been worked out in the scope of modern American legal thrillers, written by professional attorneys who depict the slightest details of real American legal proceedings.
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Kottke, Dagmara. "“And (Don’t) Stay on the Path…” – Transformation of the Fairy Tale into the Psychological Thriller in the Game The Path." Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio FF – Philologiae 36, no. 2 (January 18, 2019): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ff.2018.36.2.147-159.
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<p>Celem artykułu jest próba analizy procesu transformacji baśni w thriller psychologiczny w grze komputerowej The Path. Punkt wyjścia do rozważań stanowi teoria strukturalna Vladimira Proppa, który poddał badaniom tradycyjne baśni, wyodrębniając ich elementy wspólne, takie jak funkcje i role postaci. Rosyjski strukturalista w swojej teorii jako kluczowe elementy opowieści uwypukla bohaterów i ich działania, istotne nie tylko z punktu widzenia teoretyków literatury, ale również badaczy podejmujących refleksję nad grami komputerowymi. Studium wykazuje, że funkcje i role bohaterów tradycyjnych baśni wyróżnione przez Proppa zostają w The Path zdeformowane: gra „schodzi” z wyznaczonej przez strukturę baśni ścieżki, tworząc lukę w gatunkowej przestrzeni, która zostaje wypełniona elementami właściwymi dla thrillera psychologicznego. Odwrócenie i deformacja funkcji oraz roli postaci baśniowych skutkuje przeobrażeniem opowiedzianej w grze historii w thriller. Owo przeobrażenie wydaje się niezwykle płynne dlatego, że baśń i thriller psychologiczny nie są całkowicie odmiennymi, wykluczającymi się gatunkami; przeciwnie – uzupełniają się wzajemnie. Drugi pokazuje i dopowiada to, co pierwszy przemilcza lub zataja.</p>
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Kattelman, Beth. "The sound of evil: How the sound design of Hereditary manifests the unseen and triggers fear." Horror Studies 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 133–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host_00050_1.
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This article examines the soundtrack and score for Ari Aster’s 2018 film Hereditary, illustrating how the sound design heightens the film’s emotional and psychological impact by delivering unseen elements of the narrative auditorily and through its inclusion of sonic elements that can directly affect audience members physiologically. Hereditary’s narrative is strongly supported by musician Colin Stetson’s evocative score, which relies heavily upon his ability to coax unusual sounds from reed instruments by using uncommon fingerings, accompanying vocalizations, percussive key striking and circular breathing. After a brief synopsis and examination of the film’s themes, the article delves into particular elements that make Hereditary’s soundscape so effective, including the Shepard tone, infrasound, subliminal and corporeal sounds, and the use of silence, exploring in-depth how the sound design supports and enriches the film by building tension, enhancing dread, triggering fear and delivering unseen narrative information in a shorthand way. The article also has a wider application in that it discusses how the critical-yet under-theorized element of sound design is crucial to horror entertainments’ ability to create affect in a variety of ways and shows how the sonic components used in Hereditary have a demonstrated efficacy as shown by their use in a wide variety of horror films and thrillers.
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Molnar, Angelika. "THE INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED BY (NON-)PROFESSIONALS. EXAMPLES FOR CREATING ANXIETY AND FEAR IN A DETECTIVE SERIES." Articult, no. 3 (September 30, 2023): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2023-3-115-123.
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This paper briefly discusses the psychological and philosophical issue of anxiety and fear in a non-canonical piece of pop culture – detective series “Lucifer”. On the stated topic, this show attracts attention, firstly, because it contains the problematization of various spiritual experiences, and secondly, it raises deep questions related to the search for the meaning of existence and being in terms of rethinking biblical allusions and images. In addition, the series can be analyzed from the point of view of the “psychology of art” (Lev Vygotsky), both because of the feeling of catharsis caused and the “affects of expectation” (see Ernst Bloch), especially in the season 5. Therefore, in it is possible to study the manifestation forms of anxiety and fear. These direct and indirect signs of the expression of open and hidden human experiences are verbalized and visualized by cinema in various ways: words, gestures, actions, behavior of heroes, etc. The author of the paper refers to them not on the example of thrillers (anxiety) and horror films (fear), but a series consisting of many series, because this can reveal a longer anxiety state and show the difference between fear and anxiety at the levels of thematization and realization.
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Kulikova, A. A. "Chinese Female Writer Zhang Yueran and Fictional Features of Her Prose." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 23, no. 4 (May 6, 2024): 32–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-4-32-42.
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In this paper, the author analyzes the fiction of contemporary Chinese female writer Zhang Yueran (b. 1982). As a radiant and influential representative of the post-1980s generation in contemporary Chinese literature, Zhang Yueran is considered to be one of most talented and strong young writers. Post-1980s Chinese writers are known by depiction of young people’s lives in big cities with elements of magical realism, however, unlike the most Post-1980s Chinese writers, Zhang Yueran focuses more on the characters’ subjectivity and their pursuit of love (parental and romantic). Her complex characters thrive for love and happiness, but also suffer from loneliness and lack of parental attention. Zhang Yueran’s writing is visceral and almost poetic in its use of metaphor. The development of Zhang Yueran’s prose can be divided two key periods. Her early works are aesthetic psychological thrillers about unhealthy love, inspired by classical fairytales that end with a character’s death and self-destruction: while the language is beautiful and almost poetic, but there is a lack of narrative depth. In her second era, Zhang Yueran returns to realism and successfully combines style and deep narrative by contrasting scenes of cruelty and mercy. At the moment her latest novel “Cocoon” embodies all significant fictional features from the perspective of both style and narrative.
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Kolisnyk, Н. "The image of the book as a means of realizing the image of the «Absent father» in the stories of David Bell and Ken Bruen." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu Serìâ Fìlologìâ 16, no. 28 (2023): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2023-16-28-119-126.
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The work of David Bell and Ken Bruen is well known to English-speaking fanatics of detectives and thrillers. Their novels regularly hit the bestseller lists and receive favorable reviews from literary critics. But they have not yet become the object of a distinct literary study. But if you take into account that both D. Bell and K. Bruen skillfully combine the artistic qualities of crime stories and deep psychology in their works, it becomes obvious that the writers' works require a more detailed analysis. The subjects of our research were the short stories «Rides a Stranger» by D. Bell and «The Book of Virtues» by K. Bruen, which were included in the collection «BIBLIOMYSTERIES: Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores». The collection became a professional challenge for authors who work in thriller genres, as only short stories were accepted for it, the plot core of which was a book. D. Bell and K. Bruen complied with all the specified requirements and even more: in both stories, the central image of the book is inextricably linked with the image of the father. More precisely, they are related to the image of the "absent father" - one of the most relevant topics in modern psychology, the study of which also provoked the appearance of numerous literary studies in the field of modern literature. The aim of the work was to identify means of interaction between the image of the book and the image of the «absent father» in the stories of D. Bell «Rides a Stranger» and K. Bruien «The Book of Virtues». The relevance of the work is determined, first of all, by a small number of literary studies of the writers' work, taking into account their considerable popularity among readers. Secondly, the image of the father in the work of writers is insufficiently developed, despite the rather high relevance of this topic among psychological and literary studies of modern literature. It was established that the plot of both novels has a similar structure, but the writers depicted different types of the «absent father». D. Bell created the image of a father who is «absent» in the son's life due to detachment, reluctance to communicate, and K. Bruen portrayed a version of «absent» due to the aggression of the father, whose authoritarianism forces the son to remove any parental presence from his life. But in both stories, the role of a psychological trigger is played by the appearance of a book inherited from the father. The very fact of its appearance prompts the heroes to a kind of revision of their own idea of their father. In one case, this contributes to the creation of a situation of reconciliation of the hero with his father and the past in general, and in another, the book turns out to be powerless against the stability of the formed parental stereotype and becomes a decisive factor in the downfall of the main character. Key words: image of the book, image of the father, «absent father», parental stereotype, American literature, Irish literature.
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Kulakevych, Lyudmyla. "Artistic means of a silent film in I. Dniprovsky's psychological action «Zarady nei» («For Her Sake»)." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 13, no. 22 (2020): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2020-13-22-31-38.
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In the present paper a short story written by I. Dniprovsky's is analyzed. In accordance with the action canon, the main character has to find his beloved in the shortest possible time so that they could catch the train and escape from the enemy. In the twists and turns of the story the archetypal plot of lovers’ escape / rescue from the monster can be traced. It descends from folk tales and legends where a young man sacrifices himself for the sake of his beloved. By analogy with receptions in tense feature films (thrillers, horror films, catastrophes), the single-line plot «For Her sake» consists of annoyingly insidious concourse of circumstances. They create the feeling as if the whole world, even the closest people and character’s personal belongings, want to thwart his rescue. It is emphasized that, similar to the techniques in the action movies, a linear storyline in the short story consists of the treacherously irritating coincidences. However, while an action-adventure meta-genre normally has a happy ending, in the present short story the ending is more appropriate for a novella: the Bolsheviks shoot the hero as a deserter. It is established that the defining feature of the story is the lack of description of the characters’ appearances and their speech is reduced to minimum, which was a general feature of silent film scripts. A tense atmosphere of anxiety and fear is created through the acoustic and visual micro-images with the semantics of panic and horror. The gloomy urban landscapes, the hostility of the world and the sense of the fatal doom of the heroes refer to the German expressionist cinema of the early XX century. It is revealed that the story never mentions the struggle of ideologies or the enemy who seeks to seize Petro's native land. The enemy appears as an invisible and terrifying force, an element that creates chaos and makes it difficult to maintain human dignity. The key to understanding of this on border crazy motivation of the main character is the archetypal theory of C. G. Jung. In the story of I. Dniprovsky, a brave soldier (Persona Petra) in attempt to save himself together with Hanka (Anima), subconsciously seeks to save his Self-Identity. Moreover, a Wise Old Man (Hanka's father) and a Big Mother with a Child are present in the story as well. However, none of them is helpful to Petro and does not encourage the latter to make any attempts for escape. According to the artistic concept of the short story, when escaping from death, a person experiences tremendous stress, which breaks his psyche, so in a borderline situation collective experience fails, everyone tries to save himself. It is emphasized that the story's ending is unexpected: the hero finds himself in the city again, however, he is now in the status of unidentified enemy, whom he tried to escape and now he dies at the hands of the redhead leader.
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Ryan, Connor. "Dark and gritty/slick and glossy: Genre, Nollywood and Lagos." Journal of African Cinemas 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 295–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac_00022_1.
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Abstract In this article, I am concerned principally with Taxi Driver (Oriahi, 2015), Gbomo Gbomo Express (Taylaur, 2015), Just Not Married (Patrick, 2016), Ojukokoro (Greed) (Olaitan, 2016) as well as Catch.er (Taylaur, 2017). These films are characterized as much by the depiction of clever criminals as the cultivation of a cynical disposition from which transgressions of this sort appear stylish and violence is rendered 'cool'. Almost all of them turn on a scheme to dupe others of a large sum of money, and are punctuated by backstabbing partners in crime, tables turning by chance, edgy armed standoffs and a surprising number of bodies in car trunks. Given the dark portrait of Lagos these films present, one might be inclined to read the genre cycle as a reiteration of the role Lagos has historically played as embodiment of popular anxieties concerning insecurity, material inequality and social breakdown. And yet, in recent years, conditions within the city have markedly improved over those of the deepest point of urban crisis in the 1990s when Lagos was, indeed, paralysed by a generalized condition of insecurity and dysfunction. New Nollywood's repertoire of film styles has expanded to include international film cycles and genres such as romantic comedies, psychological thrillers, police procedurals, among others. This raises important questions about the nature of correspondences between cinema and the city, such as whether New Nollywood genre films tell us anything about social, cultural or historical circumstances in Lagos, or the place the city occupies in the popular imagination, for instance. Recent upmarket film noirs speak, instead, to the evolution of Lagos as a media capital. I examine the different kinds of work genre performs in New and Old Nollywood films and propose a number of ways to critically interpret genre's various registers.
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Rohaeni, Rohaeni, Fatma Hetami, and Bambang Purwanto. "Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ “The Girl on The Train”." Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (July 29, 2019): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.27917.
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The topic of this study is Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The objectives of this study are to describe how anxiety and defense mechanism are described in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and to explain how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller as represented in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The object of the study is a novel entitled The Girl on the Train written by Paula Hawkins. This study is descriptive qualitative study by applying Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The data of the study were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting, and inventorying citations from the novel. Further, the data were analyzed based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory by describing anxiety and defense mechanism described in the novel. The data were also analysed by explaining how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller. The results show there are three kinds of anxiety and six kinds of defense mechanism. Moreover, the results prove that those anxieties and defense mechanisms become a means of constructing psychological thriller since they make the characters suffer from psychological problem and become unreliable narrator, create plot twist, and make the novel become thrilling.
Keywords: Psychological thriller; Freudian psychoanalysis; Anxiety; Defense Mechanism.
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Manoranjani, K. K., and J. Sripadmadevi. "Unmasking the Insecure Attachments in Gone Girl and The Silent Patient." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 11, S2-March (March 30, 2024): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v11is2-march.7505.
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The psychological thriller is a subgenre of thriller, which often includes crime, mental illness and unreliable narrators. It reflects the dark side and breaks the stereotypes in the society. In literature it aims to reflect the darker side of humans and their minds through the characters. It reflects the tension and complexities of relationships in the family. It explores the deepest thoughts and motivations of the characters. This is well expressed by Gillian Flynn and Alex Michaelides in their novels Gone Girl and The Silent Patient respectively. In Gone Girl, Amy’s mysterious disappearance turns her husband Nick, into a suspect, but the truth is shocking for manipulation and hidden darkness. In The Silent Patient, Alicia, a renowned artist murders her husband in silence and becomes obsessed with unlocking the secrets buried in her past and mind. The present article explores on how characters form emotional bonds and attachments with others by magnifying with the psychological lens called Attachment theory.
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V.I., Nytspol. "ЛЕКСИЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ ДИСКУРСУ ПЕРСОНАЖА СЕРІЙНОГО ВБИВЦІ В АМЕРИКАНСЬКІЙ ХУДОЖНІЙ ПРОЗІ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ." South archive (philological sciences), no. 88 (December 16, 2021): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.32999/ksu2663-2691/2021-88-5.
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Lexical analysis has always been a productive way to study discourse through the semiotic nature of the word and its ability to function as a link between language and reality. The purpose of the article is to explore the lexical level of the discourse of a serial killer character in order to reveal their psychological features and prove their authenticity in comparison with the lexicon research of real serial killers. This study is relevant because the number of thrillers with serial killers in American literature is growing every year, but the discourse of these characters is poorly studied and requires more attention from linguists. The article uses such research methods as the method of lexical and semantic analysis of language units to study the features of language nominations; method of semantic fields, for grouping language units according to their thematic affiliation in microfields; associative method for the distribution of language units to the corresponding microfields; structural method for the separation of units, their classification and interpretation.Results. In the process of lexical analysis of the discourse of the serial killers characters, the words of the characters were divided into three main groups: words denoting mental activity, psychological needs, physiological activity and security. These groups were divided into semantic fields in order to facilitate the process of research. The analysis showed that the largest group of words in most discourses (except for two characters) is a group denoting physiological activity and safety, which corresponds to a study of the lexicon of real serial killers conducted by J. Hancock, which shows that the most important for the life of serial killers is biological component. The lexicon of the two characters (Lecturer and Claiborne), which differ from others by the predominance of words denoting mental activity, can be explained by their high educational and professional level, which shows their high IQ, which is also a feature of real serial killers.Thus, we can conclude that the authors were able to portray the characters plausibly through their lexicon.Key words: discourse, lexicon, semantic field, term, character. Лексичний аналіз завжди був продуктивним способом вивчення дискурсу через семіотичну природу слова та його здатність функціонувати як сполучна ланка між мовою та реальністю. Ця стаття має на меті дослідити лексичний рівень дискурсу персонажа серійного вбивці, щоб розкрити його психологічні особливості та довести достовірність та правдоподібність змалювання його образу в порівнянні з дослідженнями лексикону справжніх серійних убивць. Таке дослідження є актуальним, оскільки в американській літературі з кожним роком зростає кількість трилерів, де ключовими фігурами є серійні вбивці, а от дискурс цих персонажів є маловивченим і вимагає більшої уваги лінгвістів.У статті використані такі методи дослідження, як метод лексико-семантичного аналізу мовних одиниць для вивчення особливостей мовних номінацій; метод семантичних полів, для групування мов-них одиниць за їх тематичною приналежністю в мікрополя; асоціативний метод для розподілу мовних одиниць до відповідних мікрополів; структурний метод для виокремлення одиниць, їх класифікації та інтерпретації.Результати. У процесі лексичного аналізу дискурсу персонажів серійних вбивць слова персонажів було розділено на три основні групи: слова, що позначають розумову діяльність, психологічні потреби, фізіологічну активність та безпеку. Ці групи були поділені на семантичні поля, щоб полегшити процес вивчення. Аналіз показав, що найбільша група слів у більшості дискурсів (крім двох персонажів) – це група, що позначає фізіологічну активність та безпеку, що відповідає дослідженню лексикону справжніх серійних вбивць, проведеному Дж. Хенкоком, яке показує, що найважливішим для життя серійних вбивць є біологічний компонент. Лексикон двох персонажів (Лектор і Клейборн), що відрізняються від інших перевагою слів, які позначають розумову діяльність, можна пояснити їхнім високим освітнім та професійним рівнем. Це засвідчує їхній високий коефіцієнт інтелекту, що також є особливістю справжніх серійних вбивць.Отже, можна зробити висновки, що авторам вдалося зобразити портрети персонажів правдоподібно через їх лексикон, що співвідноситься з дослідженнями лексикону реальних серійних вбивць. Завдяки лексичному аналізу дискурсу вдалося розкрити психологічні особливості характерів персонажів.Ключові слова: дискурс, лексикон, семантичне поле, термін, персонаж.
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Megela, Ivan, and Kateryna Mehela. "Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)." Postmodern Openings 13, no. 4 (November 29, 2022): 335–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/520.
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The research deals with the issue of genre hybridization in the novel “Silence – Chronicle of a Killer” written by a contemporary Austrian writer Thomas Raab. An examination of the novel's composition and structure, as a text in motion, has been accomplished in the article. The novel “Silence” is an excellent illustration of how the genre of adventure has been adapted to include elements of science fiction. This novel is a love tale, a rural life saga, a formation narrative, and a psychological thriller all in one. As a fictionalized account of the life of a serial murderer with hypersensitive hearing who became a legend for his mental torment and suffering, it serves both as a biography and a thriller. Novelist Raab uses elements from classic horror novels like Frankenstein, German romantics, in particular, G. Kleist, the tale of Casper Hauser, and detective novels like Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Promise" to tell the story of Casper Hauser's disappearance in his book. A new aesthetic experience may be formed at various degrees of identification ranging from naive perception to higher levels of literary reception. Concentration is required for poetic and philosophical substance. Michel Focalut's nomadism, marginality, and authoritarian power rhetoric have been discussed in this article. The novel's ultimate content has been disclosed as the aphesis torment, emotional sublimation, as the birth of an artwork and, at the same time, death of the author, who exposes discourses, accountable for creating texts that are allocated to him.
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Lorentia, Helena. "Cheated: The Psychoanalysis on a Transgender Person." K@ta Kita 5, no. 2 (November 16, 2018): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.5.2.38-44.
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This creative works tells a story about a husband who hides his true identity from his wife. He is actually a transgender person who has a desire to be a woman, but he represses his desire and tries to live as a man. I choose the transgender topic because there are a lot of transgender people around us who repress their true sexuality because of the society norms and beliefs. Therefore, my story wants to explore more on this topic with the help of the theory of defense mechanism by Freud to explain why and how the husband represses his sexuality, and to explain the effects caused by the repression. The story is presented through the drama and psychological thriller genre to suit the style of the creative work which focuses on the psychological state of the main characters and the complexity within them,
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Bhattacharya, Saradindu. "Gender, Genre, and the Idea of the Nation." Pedagogy 21, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 549–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-9131947.
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Abstract This article examines the construction of and contestation over the idea of the nation through contemporary popular cinema in India. Building on his experience of discussing the Bollywood spy thriller Raazi (2018) in an English class, the author proposes that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological counterpoint to the generic conventions of the spy thriller within the increasingly polarized sociopolitical context of the Indian subcontinent. The film presents an unlikely female protagonist as both the physical agent and the psychological subject of the violence integral to the “action” of an espionage film. It also interrogates the oppositional relation between the patriotic “self” and the foreign “other” that lies at the basis of the militaristic conception of the nation and ultimately reveals the shared human vulnerability of both to the traumatic effects of pursuing the idea(l) of nationalism at the expense of individual moral integrity. Thus a close reading of the film's narrative structure and conventions, as well as a critical engagement with the historical context of its production and reception, can be pedagogically fruitful ways of understanding and critiquing the processes through which a nation is collectively imagined into being.
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Ue, Tom. "Solving crimes, telling stories: An interview with Tom Ryan." Book 2.0 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 207–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00077_7.
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Like the interviewer, Tom Ryan is based in Nova Scotia, in Canada’s Maritimes. Ryan is the author of more than a half-dozen books, including some critically acclaimed works for young readers: Keep This to Yourself (), for example, earned the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for YA Crime Book and the 2020 ITW Award for Best YA Thriller; more recently I Hope You’re Listening () was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award. In what follows, Ryan and I dwell on these two novels to explore what attracts him to the YA genre, his writing process, central themes in his oeuvre and how he imbues his characters with psychological complexity. This interview contributes to scholarship by expanding critical attention on Nova Scotian literature and by attending to Ryan’s remarkably successful works of genre fiction.
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Jancovich, Mark. "‘Frighteningly real’: Realism, social criticism and the psychological killer in the critical reception of the late 1940s horror-thriller." European Journal of American Culture 31, no. 1 (April 9, 2012): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac.31.1.25_1.
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Angelina, Ayu Mella, Zainal Abidin, and FX Yatno Karyadi. "FILM FIKSI TUAN X: Pendekatan Gestur sebagai Penanda Psikologi Tokoh Utama." Capture : Jurnal Seni Media Rekam 10, no. 1 (December 21, 2018): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33153/capture.v10i1.2186.
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<p><em>The film Tuan X is a fictional film with the theme of psychology. This film is very closely related to one's personal life. Films that tell about the condition of someone who is experiencing severe frustration so that his psychological was disturbed and it made him did things that are not normal. The production of </em><em>Tuan X</em><em> film is based on the concepts of directing, videography, editing, and sound that have been set before. From the film that was successfully created, it appears that gestures can be used to show a psychological picture of a character. The right gestures can be supported by repetition of movements so that it strengthens a character of the figure, so that the intensity of the tension / thriller of the story in reaching a climax is in accordance to the genre raised. In addition, the gestures succeeded in becoming a signifier of the psychological reality of the character.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: Film, Tuan X, </em><em>psychology</em><em>, signifier, and gesture</em></p>
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Marsena, Jennifer Gracia, and Sonny Angjaya. "EXPOSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY FROM THE MENTALLY ILL REPRESENTATION IN TODD PHILLIPS’ JOKER." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 6, no. 1 (March 29, 2022): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v6i1.135.
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Social inequality has continuously become a problem especially towards marginalized group. Such topic is presented in Todd Phillips latest psychological thriller, Joker (2019). Whilst other researches focus on the psychological aspect of the film, this study takes on the perspective of the sociological/socio-political aspect in the film which is social inequality. In analyzing the social inequality aspect of the film, this study uses theory of structural discrimination by Link, et al. which theorizes that laws, policies, or other practices. are discriminating a marginalized group. To analyze the film itself, the writers analyzed the mise-en- scène and cinematography aspects of the film. The purpose of this study is to find if government’s policies have any involvement of impact to the life of a mentally ill person. Method used for this analysis is qualitative data research. In analyzing the film, it is found that Fleck’s life as a mentally ill and poor person is deliberately sabotaged by the discriminative policies and laws applied in Gotham city. In conclusion, this film represents Joker as more than just a Batman’s main film but rather used as a vehicle to criticize the state of social inequality in the world.
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Glant, Tibor. "1956 at Ten and Beethoven’s Tenth." Acta Neerlandica, no. 15 (July 10, 2020): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.36392/actaneerl/2019/15/9.
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This article looks at Edward Alexander, an American diplomat who served in Hungary between 1965 and 1969, and his various writings. An Armenian-American man of letters, Alexander served in psychological warfare in World War II, then joined cold war radios and later the Foreign Service. Our focus is on the years 1965-67, when he served as Press and Cultural Affairs Officer at the Budapest Legation. Available sources include his official diplomatic reports, his rather large Hungarian state security file, a lifetime interview conducted under the aegis of the State Department in the late 1980s, a book on Armenian history, and a semi-autobiographical intelligence thriller he penned in 2000. These sources allow for a complex evaluation of his performance in Hungary and of his writing skills on account of his attempt to fictionalize his own exploits.
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Steckenbiller, Christiane. "Rethinking the multiple meanings of the Mediterranean through Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals (2017)." Journal of European Studies 52, no. 2 (June 2022): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00472441221090714.
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Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals (2017) thematizes the arrival of refugees on Europe’s shores and the division of Europe into core and peripheral regions. The psychological thriller tells the story of two young wealthy white women whose daily routines of swimming and sunbathing are interrupted when they meet a Syrian refugee on a secluded beach. In this article, I argue that the novel overlays geographies of forced migration with those of Greek national history, myth, travel, crime, and violence. The murder committed on a Greek island compels readers to examine what might be considered the larger ‘crimes’ of Europe – exclusionary refugee policies, the meddling in Greek affairs, and the legacies of colonialism and imperialism. In doing so, the novel asks us to rethink the multiple meanings of the Mediterranean as holiday destination, deadly outer border, and Southern Other, both intra- and extra-European at the same time.
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Kutrzeba, Kacper. "Polish Romanticism and the Discourses of Madness and the Mental Asylum." Ruch Literacki 58, no. 2 (March 1, 2017): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ruch-2017-0021.
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Summary This article deals with the problem of representation of psychiatric discourse and the mental asylum in the literature of Polish Romanticism. I am interested in both sides of the argument, i.e. the attempts to legitimize confinement in psychiatric institutions as well as the reasoning of the critics of that policy. My analyses, which draw on texts ranging from literary classics like Juliusz Słowacki’s Kordian to popular fiction (e.g. Ludwik Sztyrmer’s psychological thriller Phrenophagos and Phrenolestes and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s short story Bedlam), suggest that the psychiatric discourse in 19th-century literature employed three basic strategies of representation, i.e. legitimation, subversion and functionalization. If a fresh interest in institutionalized psychiatry was one of the key characteristics of the rise of modern society, the literature of Polish Romanticism was certainly part of it, even if its approach was dominated by ideas and attitudes that were hardly novel.
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Octavita, Astri Indriana, Tiarma Ika Yuliana, M. Ali Ghufron, and Rima Novia Ulfa. "Psychopath Analysis in Sweeney Todd Movie." Candradimuka: Journal of Education 1, no. 2 (July 13, 2023): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.60012/cje.v1i2.47.
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Movie is loved by almost people in the world. Many messages can be delivered on a movie. In this case, the writer wants to examine the movie entitled “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Tim Burton in 2007. This movie is a drama musical thriller genre because it contains many mysteries that must be paid more attention to understand about the psychological of Todd as the main character. The purpose of this research is to find out the psychopath characteristics of main character. The method that the writer used is qualitative method, after analyzing all the data the writer found that there are 5 characteristics of psychopath, which are: Aggressivity, Criminality, Lying, Violation of the right of others and Behavior that indicates apparent lack of guilty, anxiety and remorse do not have a sense of empathy. The most dominant characteristics of psychopath is Aggressivity.
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Jelsbak, Torben. "“Didn’t that sound like the north was calling us?” Imagined geographies and Cold War legacies in Sofi Oksanen’s Dog Park (Koirapuisto)." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 34 (December 29, 2023): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/fsp-2023.34.09.
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The article presents a discussion of Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen’s 2019 novel Dog Park (Koirapuisto), a social and psychological thriller about two Ukrainian women working in the Ukrainian fertility industry, offering surrogacy services to Western clients. The novel explores some of the new modes of exchange and cultural encounter that were established between Ukraine and the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It presents a reflection of the social and human consequences of the transition from communism to capitalism but is also a story of how the legacy of Cold War geopolitics continues to shape European mental geographies and experiences at the intersection of East and West. Drawing on concepts from human geography and postcolonial studies, the article offers a reading of Oksanen’s novel focusing especially on how the novel negotiates these geopolitical shifts as well as the position of the Nordic countries on the changing European map.
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Fitria, Tira Nur. "A PSYCHOANALYSIS OF PSYCHOPATHS: PERSONALITY DISORDER OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN ORPHAN FILM." ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture 6, no. 2 (November 14, 2022): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um006v6i22022p153-173.
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The objective of this research is to know the psychopath behavior shown by Esther as a main character in the Orphan film and the cause of her psychopath behavior. This research is descriptive qualitative research by using the psychopath's theory from Hare (2011). Orphan is a psychopathic, thriller, and psychological-themed film directed by Jaume Collet Serra which was released in 2009. The result analysis shows that in the film Orphan, Esther shows a psychopath behavior as the main character, they are: 1) displays a false or superficial self-charm, 2) Failure to conform to social norms (likely to breach social and legal standards and conventions), 3) Having unstable ad uncontrolled emotion, 4) Acting reckless, impulsive, and hard to control, 5) Heartless and lacks empathy, 6 )Lack of remorse, easy to lie for no reason and without guilt (deception), 7) Tending to seek the attention of others, 8) Capable of committing various types of criminal acts such as killing Sister Abigail, burning Max, trying to kill Max, stabbing John, shooting and stabbing Kate, 9) Behave aggressively, 10) Manipulative and likes to cheat, and 11) Having a history of being difficult, criminal, or dangerous experience. The cause of Esther’s psychopath is caused by a hormone disorder called hypopituitarism. It likes a body disorder. She looks like a 9-year-old physically, but psychologically she is normal as a 33-year-old woman, with feelings of liking for the sex and having biological needs. It can be seen from his attitude that always tries to be close to the father of his adoptive family, namely when he dresses up as an adult and then teases Jack, his adoptive father.
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Demas, Alexis, and David Tillot. "Pathological laughing and psychotic disorder: the medical evaluation of the Joker." Acta Neurologica Belgica 120, no. 6 (March 18, 2020): 1379–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13760-020-01332-3.
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Abstract In the psychological thriller film Joker, released in 2019 and starring Joaquin Phoenix in the first role, another possible origin story for this iconic character is reported. Above all, it brings us medical elements for the understanding of the development of this complex character. Contrary to other interpretations, we discover a lonely, timid and uncharismatic man (Arthur Fleck). He seems to be suffering from psychobehavioral disorders and seems depressed. There is a strangeness in his behavior along with social withdrawal. He suffers from fits of laughter that occur at socially inappropriate times. He also suffers from psychotic symptoms with visual delusions. We learn through the film that he was a beaten child, psychologically and physically abused with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The uncontrollable outbursts of laughter, behavioral and psychotic disorders followed these elements. As a neurologist, I was intrigued by these symptoms. I have explored the neuropsychiatric symptoms complicating TBI from which he seems to suffer and which have been reported in the literature. We can assume that the Joker is suffering from neuropsychiatric sequelae related to childhood TBI involving the frontotemporal regions and, in particular, the lateral aspect of the left frontal lobe. The movie Joker has medical significance and covers social aspects of medicine and health care. First, it allows us to discuss whether psychotic disorder due to TBI should be considered a neurobiological syndrome. More broadly, albeit fictitious, it asks us about the management of patients with neuropsychiatric illness, which is a public health problem. It also reminds us that semiological descriptions of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders have served as inspiration for many authors.
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Kurniawan, Jeffry. "Prey: Cyberbullyings Consequences Toward Victims Mental Health and His Social Life." K@ta Kita 9, no. 2 (October 23, 2021): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.9.2.243-252.
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This screenplay project focuses on cyberbullying's impacts on its victims, both mentally and physically. The goal is to shed light into this action of crime that is often overlooked, to make a better cyberspace environment, and to raise awareness to the public, especially cyberbullying perpetrators, to stop what they are doing. To do so, this creative thesis uses the cyberbullying concept that points out how cyberspace bullying can trigger paranoia and depression among many other mental disorders. The work is based on theories on paranoia, depression and cyberbullying itself. From the screenplay, it is shown how the main characters got cyberbullied, and later went from a healthy, hardworking, resilient man to a mentally broken human being as a consequence. By understanding the impact the act of cyberbullying can have on a person’s life, cyberspace users can be more responsible and refrain themselves from the act of cyberbullying.Keywords: Cyberbully, Screenplay, Depression, Paranoia, Psychological Thriller.
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Grigore, Rodica. "Memory, Fiction and Reality in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Novels." Sæculum 47, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/saec-2019-0009.
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AbstractOften compared to Jorge Luis Borges or even to William Faulkner for the intricate and symbolic structure of his work, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina always tried to evaluate within his novels the complex relationship between reality and fiction. The Spanish Rider (1991), one of his most exquisite creations also deals with the significance of memory as far as his protagonist’s evolution and decisions are concerned. Above all these, the novelist analyzes the influence of history on common people’s life and underlines the necessary balance that has to be established between the historical great events and everyday’s choices. His next novel, Full Moon (1997) uses the same aesthetic points of departure, but complicates everything with the details of a specific kind of psychological thriller, the author proving how the seemingly very simple structure of a crime story may turn into an unexpected evaluation of the tragic aspects definying contemporary human condition.
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VS, Kumar, Karuveettil V, Yeturu SK, Krishnan NA, Arjunraj UK, Menon SS, and Radhakrishnan V. "Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic among Undergraduate Dental Students: A Qualitative Study." International Journal of Current Research and Review 14, no. 16 (2022): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/ijcrr.2022.141604.
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Introduction: During COVID-19 pandemic, students were introduced to a novel learning platform moving away from in-person lecture classes and pedagogies. Medical courses in general and dentistry in specific has its chunk of curriculum devoted to development of clinical and laboratory skills, patient interaction and management of a wide spectrum of oral and general diseases which affect the human body. Many Universities have shifted to online mode of delivery of lectures from traditional college activities during COVID-19 lockdown Objective: This study was conducted to assess the psychological and social, educational and physical health impact of COVID-19 on dental undergraduate students through a qualitative method. Methods: Qualitative phenomenological approach was undertaken. Focus group discussions and in-depth interview were conducted according to different grades of their study during undergraduate course. Results: Psychologically, the students were anxious of prolonging their undergraduate course and also of the conduct of exams. The students were initially thrilled to be with their close family members; but gradually boredom loomed large. Those who used to regularly take part in sports, games and other physical activities could not continue with those as restrictions were enforced. Conclusion: The students were mostly anxious due to lack of training in clinical dentistry, conduct of exams and course duration. Students were mostly glad to be with their family members during lock down. The physical activity among students have come down drastically.
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Ng, Carmen. "Affecting reality." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 8, no. 1 (August 15, 2019): 96–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v8i1.115418.
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This essay examines how digital games shape human affective repertoires and envisioned dynamics with nonhuman agents such as robots. Entanglements among humans, machines, and technologies impact essential issues in the historical present: from surveillance, climate change, cultural heritage, art, to the elicitation, habituation, and capturing of feelings. Approaching digital games as frontiers of such entanglements, this essay expounds dynamics among gameplay, affects, and gamic materiality through a case analysis of Nevermind (Flying Mollusk), a trauma-themed independent psychological thriller game with affect-sensing technologies. Discussionexplores how the game can generatively engage with lived experiences and discourses of grief and trauma; and the relationality among individuals, structures of feelings, and stigmatization. Anchoring the essay is an argument that digital games represent and operate with fundamental tenets of posthumanism, communicating meaning across affective and semiotic dimensions, bodies, machines, and sociocultural contexts. This essay emerged from an ongoing project on affective semiotics and social impact game design, in connection with a transnational research project on human-robot interactionsupported by the European Research Council.
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Byrne, Sebastian. "Moving between worlds: Performance, the scene of empathy and flexible identity in Infernal Affairs." Asian Cinema 34, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ac_00068_1.
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This article explores the bodily and psychological dimensions of Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s performance in Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s urban noir thriller, Infernal Affairs (2002), as a way of trying to comprehend the actor’s flexible, transnational stardom. Through a textual analysis of a pivotal scene from the film, the article argues that Leung’s facial acting facilitates an embodied and empathetic connection between the actor and the spectator, effectuated through cinematic techniques such as close-ups, editing and music. An embodied understanding of Leung’s facial work in the close-up thus challenges the existing scholarship that limits Leung’s transnational appeal to a restrained or minimalist acting style. A greater appreciation of Leung’s modulating, flexible and multi-layered performance is also illustrated through the scene’s juxtaposition of narrative and spectacle. The rupturing of the spectator’s empathetic and bodily engagement with Leung’s character during the spectacle sequence encourages the actor to shift his emotional response and bodily expressivity towards a performance delivery dictated by a flexible identity, thus bringing into relief the film’s preoccupation with a postcolonial identity crisis.
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Osmukhina, O. Yu. "“Nordic (Scandinavian) Noir” vs Scandinavian Detective: a Debatable Aspect of Study." Nauchnyi dialog 12, no. 1 (February 7, 2023): 246–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2023-12-1-246-265.
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The phenomenon of “Nordic (Scandinavian) noir”, which has formed in the literature of Northern Europe in the last two decades, is studied. The author considers the works of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian prose writers and proves the insufficient legitimacy of their attribution to “noir”. The term noir is substantiated. Based on the analysis of the novels by S. Larsson, J. Nesbø, H. Flood, M. Lindstein, A. Mette Hancock, the relevance of the term detective in relation to the work of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish prose writers is stated. It has been established that the definition of “Scandinavian (Nordic) noir” is not applicable to any of the newest Scandinavian novels. In terms of genre, in fact, each of these works is a detective story that combines other genre elements. “Millennium” by S. Larsson, “The Snowman”, “Leopard”, “Redneck” by J. Nesbø, “Corpse Flower” by A. M. Hancock synthesize elements of a detective, family and social novel. “The Therapist” H. Flod is a synthesis of a psychological thriller and a detective story. “A sect from a misty island” by M. Lindsteen combines the properties of a gothic novel (a closed chronotope of a manor, which is an analogue of a castle chronotope; the presence of a villain hero who determines the plot deployment) and a psychological detective story (an investigating heroine who reconstructs the events of the past, relying on logic to solve the mystery and giving realistic motivation to what is happening).
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GOLOBORODKO, Iaroslav. "ARTISTIC HYPERPLANE. GIOVANNI ARPINO – DINO RISI, NARTIN BREST – GIOVANNI ARPINO." Astraea 5, no. 1 (2024): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2024.5.1.01.
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The article considers current cultural problematics – connections and interrelationships in the field of “literature and cinematography”. The importance of literary works as one of the foundations of the activity of modern cinematographers is emphasized. The significance of successful feature (artistic) cinema for raising the status of individual literary texts is identified. The article singles out the figure of the Italian writer and journalist Giovanni Arpino, provides a brief outline of his life and work, and emphasizes the diversity of his literary interests. Of special interest in the context of the research is the fact that prose works of Giovanni Arpino were repeatedly addressed by film directors and that feature films based on his works oftentimes turned into cultural events on a European and worldwide scale. The article pays special attention to Giovanni Arpino’s novel “Darkness and. Honey” (“Il buio e il miele”), which at the time of its publication in 1969 did not receive the same recognition as a number of his earlier prose works. The characteristics of the main plot and psychological properties of the novel “Darkness and Honey” are presented. The research points out the eloquent fact that the novel in question aroused wide social interest after first the Italian director Dino Risi staged a psychological story called “Profumo di donna”, and then the Hollywood director Martin Brest staged a psychological thriller “Scent of a Woman”. The compositional and conceptual features of each of these films are analyzed in detail, while the gender specificity realized in the films “Profumo di donna” and “Scent of a Woman” is identified. The article justifies the conclusion that the plane of “literature and cinematography” can be transformed into the hyperplane of “literature – cinematography – literature”.
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Memola, Giovanni. "Visto, si stupri. Sesso e terrore nelle immagini di violenza sulle donne nel cinema italiano degli anni Settanta, tra finzione e realtà." Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia 6, no. 11 (July 22, 2022): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2532-2486/17302.
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In the 1970s, Italian cinema experienced a boom of images and narrative elements associated with acts of violence against women, which were often further combined with sex. Such a phenomenon characterized domestic film production to a very large extent, therefore beyond budget and marketing implications, as well as auteur ambitions. In this context, the mystery-thriller films of the so-called “giallo” established a peculiar relation with violence against women at large, as they encoded it in the narrative mechanisms and in the development of the genre itself by means of subject-related marketing strategies and audience expectations. Quickly brought to popularity in the wake of Dario Argento’s works, over the years the “giallo” has been widely investigated precisely on the grounds of its defining featuring of violence against women, with most outcomes interpreting its psychological and allegorical aspects against the background of Italy’s contemporaneous social history. The aim of this essay is to enrich the interpretation field on this subject, prompting a reflection on such images and imagery of violence in the light of what were the practices, beliefs and expectations about violence against women beyond fiction, in the everyday life of 1970s Italy.
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Kopitz, Linda. "Of monsters and men: Physical attractiveness and the appearance of monstrosity in Netflix’s You." Journal of Fandom Studies, The 11, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 133–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00078_1.
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The series You, which has become part of the cultural zeitgeist since the first season became available on Netflix in December 2018, has introduced a protagonist at the same time in line and notably different from other serialized serial killers. By establishing the main character, played by former Gossip Girl heartthrob Penn Badgley, not only as the protagonist but romantic lead in a format blurring conventions from both the psychological thriller and the romance, the series challenges viewers to negotiate their attraction for a television character that seems ‘unloveable’. Portrayed as both a (literal) stalker and serial killer in the series, how viewers talk about Joe Goldberg underlines an understanding of the contemporary monstrous body as a site of manifestation. Through a discourse analysis of comments posted on Twitter and YouTube about the show and its main character, this article highlights how viewers interrogate questions of monstrosity and morality through the visuality of the body. As an interpretive repertoire centred on Embodiment, highlighting the attractive and non-threatening body functions as a practice of meaning-making that is aware of, but does not necessarily follow an ‘intended’ reading by the producers of popular culture.
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Zywert, Aleksandra. "Centrum i peryferia. Obraz Moskwy w powieści Dmitrija Głuchowskiego Tekst." Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie - Oblicza i Dialog, no. 9 (December 20, 2019): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/kw.2019.9.15.
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Text is a novel of manners with elements of a thriller, a noir, and a detective novel (but the above-mentioned complementary elements fulfill only a supportive role, because the criminal intrigue exposed at the very beginning is treated marginally amounts to a starting point for deeper considerations of the psychological and sociological nature). Due to the peculiar presentation of the image of the Center (here: Moscow), Text fits into the vision of Moscow as the core of Russian predatory capitalism, exuberant consumerism, glitz, semblance and ruthless struggle for recognition in the ranking of successful people, which is presented in contemporary Russian literature. Its fundamental value is the fact that the realization of the author's idea is mainly due to the confrontation of megalopolis with images of the periphery, which can be regarded as satellite cities of the capital. In his perception of Russia, Glukhovsky is close to Roman Senchin and, similarly to the latter, he believes that the traditionally understood center-periphery, city-village conflict is disappearing, because eventually it turns out that (despite the spatial and social diversity) none of these places (mainly because of conspicuous regressive tendencies) does not give a person a chance for free development and self-realization.
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Virginás, Andrea. "Film genre patterns and complex narrative strategies in the service of authorship." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 24 (April 18, 2019): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.24.3.
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Film genre patterns and complex narrative strategies in the service of authorshipFrom the Euro-American canon of contemporary filmmaking a selection of films has been made, the directors of which transition from low-budget, arthouse, regional first features made in the years 1997–1998 mainly Cube and Pi, with occasional references to Run, Lola, Run and Following to big-budget, Hollywood-funded blockbusters presented in the years 2009–2010 Splice and Black Swan, occasionally referring to The International and Inception. Within this framework the issue of how generic patterns are used by these directors fond of narrative complexity is discussed. While in the debut features narrative complexity is the main issue, leading to a revisionist usage of sci-fi Natali and psychological thriller/horror Aronofsky, as well as action film Tykwer and noir detection film Nolan, in the 2009–2010 blockbusters narrative complexity is hidden behind apparently sincere generic imitation. This latter procedure, on closer inspection, reveals the allegorical recreation of genres as types as defined by Laetz and McIver Lopes in The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy. The aim is to examine narratively complex designs as tools in establishing the authorial names of these directors, based on their first features, with attention paid to the consistency of film genres referenced.
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Ijam, Dunya Muhammed Miqdad, and Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi. "A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Mood and Modality in One of Metcalfe’s Novels." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 5 (May 29, 2024): 1360–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1405.08.
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The study examined Gemma Metcalfe's novel A Gripping Psychological Thriller: A Mother's Sacrifice from a systemic functional linguistic approach. The interpersonal metafunction, used in this study, can aid in drawing a picture of the mother's sacrifice experience and revealing the appropriate lexicogrammatical choices to spotlight that experience. It is accomplished by detecting Mood and Modality systems in extracts from the novel representing that experience. It aims to show how mother's sacrifice is realised linguistically through the interpersonal metafunction according to Halliday and Matthiessen's framework. The study adopts a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for analysis. The researchers discovered that the interpersonal metafunction through Mood and Modality systems divulges the experience of the mother's sacrifice as an experience of choice, and the most appropriate representative of this experience is the systemic functional linguistic approach. Moreover, the empolyment of the Mood system shows that all kinds of Mood give the full portrait of mother's sacrifice. However, not all Moods are equally effective. Further, the Modality system mirrors how the characters in the novel use various kinds of Modality with different scales, degrees, and modal orientations in order to express their attitudes, (dis) beliefs, fears, doubts, obligations, probabilities, necessities, possibilities, (un)certainties, willing, abilities, and even usualities.
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Flood, Joseph P., and Christopher Parker. "Student Awareness of University Adventure Programs: Understanding Motivations and Constraints." Recreational Sports Journal 38, no. 2 (October 2014): 104–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/rsj.2013-0021.
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Participation rates among college students in adventure programs (AP) have been problematic in recent years. While AP managers focus on the quality of programs offered to students, little effort has addressed reducing constraints to participation, improving program offerings, and effectively marketing AP at colleges and universities. The purpose of this investigation was to identify the constraints and motivations to AP participation. A survey was administered to 193 college students. Overall, respondents were motivated to participate in outdoor recreation activities that included males wanting to observe others, teach others, and experience thrills, while females wanted to be with companions and to receive physical and emotional benefits. Even though both males and females identified lack of time and money as major constraints, they also identified stress and demands of life as constraints. To enhance participation, AP managers need to emphasize the physical and psychological benefits that can potentially reduce stress.
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Дев'ятко, Наталія Володимирівна. "Жанрові особливості та творчий потенціал сучасної української літератури (на прикладі українського цифрового самвидаву)." Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство" 2, no. 98 (2021): 122–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/2312-1076.2021.2.98.07.
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The article is devoted to the study of genre features and creative potential of modern Ukrainian literature, which has the form of digital self-publishing. The study used hermeneutic, comparative, system-structural and structural-functional methods, as well as conceptual, plot-image, problem-thematic analysis, text-analytical method of "careful reading" to read the archetypal and code content of texts and others. Currently, there are more than 10 literary digital self-published resources inUkraine. However, the prose resources "Booknet" and "Arkush" have the real influence on the literary process. Both allow authors to communicate with readers through digital self-publishing. Five factors influence the work of modern Ukrainian authors: 1) the influence of classical Ukrainian and world canons; 2) the influence of postmodernism both in the literature and at the social and ideological levels; 3) the influence of mass literature of the Russian Federation; 4) the influence of translations and modern European literature; 5) the influence of the Internet and communication with the reader. In the context of digital self-publishing, each of these factors has its own specifics. The influence of cinema on mass literature is especially powerful. This can be manifested as a replication of the template (simplification), and in the form of systemic plot and psychological complication of textual structures. Today, digital self-publishing is represented by a whole range of genres: fiction (science fiction, fantasy, mystical prose, etc.), realism (historical, romantic, social, psychological novel, detective, thriller, etc.), and literature for children and youth. In each genre we see original novels that are not inferior in quality to those published through publishing houses. The latter makes it possible to talk about the emergence of writers inUkrainewho can be "indie authors". That corresponds to the global changes in book publishing.
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Daher-Nashif, Suhad. "Literature as a Pedagogical Tool in Medical Education: The Silent Patient Case." Humanities 10, no. 3 (August 8, 2021): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10030095.
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The arts have seen increasing use in medical education over the last 4 decades. Literature in particular is now frequently used as an educational tool in different medical humanities programmes. This paper analyses Alex Michaelides’ novel The Silent Patient with the goal of examining the professional issues presented in this psychological thriller and how the novel’s themes can be used to prompt discussion among medical students about professionalism and ethics in psychiatric settings. Following Strauss and Corbin’s qualitative procedure for conventional content analysis, this study employs content analysis of the literary text. The process of analysis began with open coding in which codes were assigned to all relevant sentences and paragraphs addressing professionalism in working with silent patients in psychiatry. These codes were then analysed to identify five major themes: multidisciplinary teamwork; therapy for the therapist; patient-centred care for silent patients; communication with silent patients; professional challenges in working with silent patients. The paper concludes that The Silent Patient novel represents important issues related to ethics and professionalism in working with silent patients in psychiatric settings. The novel can be used as a creative tool to guide discussion surrounding these issues. The paper argues that although the impact of its use is short-term, literature can make a significant contribution by provoking thought and discussion about professional and ethical aspects of practising medicine and caring for patients.
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Clemente Arribas, Beatriz, and Francisco Godoy Tena. "Cohesive Devices in Literary texts: Analysis of Stephen King’s The Mist for Students of Foreign Languages, Linguistics and Translation." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 3 (March 5, 2022): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.3.4.
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Text analysis constitutes one of the most challenging and complex practices for every student. Owing to this fact, linguists need a theoretical framework that would explain every linguistic device in text cohesion. Those cohesive devices may identify those units that are part of the analysed text. Among the huge amount of literary works that might be analysed, we chose one by Stephen King, one of the most prolific thriller writers of the 20th century. The aim of this study is to analyse one of his bestsellers in American Literature, The Mist, a psychological horror novella published in 1980. The main work used in this research is Hasan and Halliday’s Cohesion in English, which will be the centre of the linguistic study. Thanks to this investigation, we shall establish certain linguistic parameters to help students build a linguistic analysis to ease their academic and professional areas, such as linguistics and translation. The excerpt analysed will include certain linguistic cohesive devices, such as anaphora-cataphora, the use of direct speech, relative clauses, or Hasan and Halliday’s terms of field, tenor, and mode, among others. As a result of this, EFL students from different disciplines, such as foreign languages, translation, or linguistic studies, will therefore increase their knowledge of this literary model in order to be applied to other literary and non-literary works.
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Sanborn, Wallis R. "The Vietnam War in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men." Cormac McCarthy Journal 21, no. 1 (February 2023): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/cormmccaj.21.1.0054.
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ABSTRACT Cormac McCarthy’s ninth novel No Country for Old Men is at points a thriller, a shoot-em-up, a novel of violence, a novel of the Border Southwest, but at its heart, it is a novel of the Vietnam War. Set in 1980, the text is populated by veterans of the war in Vietnam, and even those not explicitly identified as such carry the Vietnam War in their person and psyche. Llewelyn Moss and Carson Wells are sniper and Special Forces, respectively, while Anton Chigurh is too trained to be anything but a special operator. All three return from war to participate in war—a war based on the narco-economy and the violence secondary to such. In the work, each of the three uses military-taught skills to survive or not as the author conjoins each veteran’s postwar life with his peri-war training. Subversively, McCarthy creates a fourth Vietnam War veteran though the character of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a veteran of World War II. Bell’s psychological makeup, his guilt, his regret, his self-ostracization, is that of the Vietnam veteran. But, while McCarthy creates a novel of the Vietnam War, the Coen brothers’ film of the same title marginalizes the Vietnam War and cuts the theme from the film. The novel could not exist without the Vietnam War, but the film can, and does.
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Devina Natalie and Cosmas Gatot Haryono. "Representation Of Violence In The Film Malignant 2021." Jurnal Info Sains : Informatika dan Sains 14, no. 02 (May 15, 2024): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.54209/infosains.v14i02.4382.
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Violence refers to physical, verbal, or psychological behaviors carried out to injure or harm others or other beings, including acts of physical abuse, bullying, and warfare. Its impacts often harm societies and individuals, violating human rights principles. Violence can affect the mental and physical conditions of individuals who are victims of it. The purpose of this research is (1) to analyze the meaning conveyed in the film "Malignant" and (2) to analyze the representation of violence depicted by actors within the film "Malignant." The method used by the researcher is a qualitative approach, where the film "Malignant" by James Wan, released in 2021, serves as the primary data source analyzed. The analysis technique used is semiotic analysis from Charles Sanders Peirce, consisting of signs, objects, and the use of signs (interpretant). The analysis results show that the film "Malignant" combines supernatural horror elements with mystery and thriller elements to create a gripping story with many surprises. "Malignant" creates a tense atmosphere with various captivating scenes. It narrates the life of a woman who often receives visions of gruesome murders, which disrupt her peace. These murders are carried out by a terrifying figure. The woman named Madison, portrayed by Annabelle Wallis, also experiences violence from her husband while she is pregnant, leading to a miscarriage. Additionally, at the beginning of the story, her husband is also killed by the same terrifying figure.
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Powers, Korine. "Hannibal Lecter as Avenging War Orphan in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising." Twentieth-Century Literature 66, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-8196740.
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Beginning with Red Dragon (1981), horror icon Hannibal Lecter thrilled audiences as the ultimate unreadable reader, consuming minds and bodies behind the polished veneer of aristocratic taste and psychological expertise. Yet by the end of the twentieth century, Lecter had shifted from monster to hero. This article argues that Thomas Harris’s prequel novel, Hannibal Rising (2006), makes Lecter more palatable by portraying his serial murders as an act of vengeance against a postwar society that allowed war criminals to rejoin the consumer milieu. Hannibal Rising uses graphic depictions of the atrocities of the Second World War—including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement—to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. Lecter is rendered mute by the trauma of consuming his sister, the patrician Lecter Castle becomes a Soviet orphanage, and Lecter’s eventual victims are war criminals who have reintegrated into society across the Western world. In return, Hannibal Rising’s readers are asked to project the specter of Lecter’s trauma and these war criminals’ violence onto all of Lecter’s victims. No act of cannibalism, Hannibal Rising suggests, is more monstrous than the war crimes and subsequent Allied apathy that Hannibal fights and bites against.