Cinema, Fear and Horror: Some Mechanisms of Identification

Governare la Paura 1 (1) (2008)
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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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