Governare la paura (Jun 2008)

Cinema, Fear and Horror: Some Mechanisms of Identification

  • Giorgio Cremonini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1974-4935/2544
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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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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