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2. Why Our Brains Love Horror Movies: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/25/why-ourbrains-love-horror-movies-fear-catharsis-a-sense-of-doom.html
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12. Nowell, Richard."There's More Than One Way to Lose Your Heart": the American film industry, early
teen slasher films, and female youth.""]. Cinema Journal.
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1. ANDERSON-MINSHALL, DIANE. "American Horror Story." Advocate 1065 (2013): 57-61. Academic
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3. Ballon, Bruce, and Molyn Leszcz. "Horror Films: Tales To Master Terror Or Shapers Of Trauma?."
American Journal Of Psychotherapy 61.2 (2007): 211-230. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb.
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5. Briefel, Aviva. "What Some Ghosts Don't Know: Spectral Incognizance And The Horror Film."
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8. Conrich, Ian. "Gothic Bodies And The Return Of The Repressed: The Korean Horror Films Of Ahn
Byeong-Ki." Gothic Studies 12.1 (2010): 106-115. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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9. Gordon, Devin. "Horror Show." Newsweek 147.14 (2006): 60-62. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4
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HANTKE, STEFFEN. "The Military Horror Film: Speculations On A Hybrid Genre." Journal Of
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HARRIS, MARK. "Dawn Of The Dread." Entertainment Weekly 1235 (2012): 29. Academic Search
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Jancovich, Mark. "Female Monsters: Horror, The ‘Femme Fatale’ And World War II." European
Journal Of American Culture 27.2 (2008): 133-149. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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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 31.1
(2012): 25-39. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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Jensen, Marc. "Feed Me!": Power Struggles And The Portrayal Of Race In Little Shop Of Horrors."
Cinema Journal 48.1 (2008): 51-67. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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Johnson, Brian D. "An Exquisite Madness." Maclean's 116.9 (2003): 42. Academic Search
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Johnson, Brian D. "Horror Undead." Maclean's 122.42 (2009): 56-58. Academic Search Premier.
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Jones, Malcolm. "The Mother Of All Horror Films." Newsweek 155.3 (2010): 58-61. Academic
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Keegan, Rebecca Winters. "The Splat Pack." Time 168.18 (2006): 66-70. Academic Search
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KEISNER, JODY. "Do You Want To Watch? A Study Of The Visual Rhetoric Of The Postmodern
Horror Film." Women's Studies 37.4 (2008): 411-427. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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Khan, Ali, and Ali Nobil Ahmad. "From Zinda Laash To Zibahkhana: Violence And Horror In
Pakistani Cinema." Third Text 24.1 (2010): 149-161. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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Kilker, Robert. "All Roads Lead To The Abject: The Monstrous Feminine And Gender Boundaries
In Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining.." Literature Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 54-63. Academic Search
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LEE, NATHAN. "Ghostframe Killah." Film Comment 49.1 (2013): 45-47. Academic Search Premier.
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Leeder, Murray. "Skeletons Sail An Etheric Ocean: Approaching The Ghost In John Carpenter's
The Fog." Journal Of Popular Film & Television 37.2 (2009): 70-79. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4
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LOWENSTEIN, ADAM. "Spectacle Horror And Hostel: Why 'Torture Porn' Does Not Exist." Critical
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Matlock, Mark. "Do Horror Movies Hurt My Faith?." Ignite Your Faith 65.2 (2006): 26-27.
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May, Jeff. "Zombie Geographies And The Undead City." Social & Cultural Geography 11.3 (2010):
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McBRIDE, JASON. "Canada's Gore Factory." Maclean's 125.22 (2012): 56-58. Academic Search
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Olney, Ian. "The Problem Body Politic, Or "These Hands Have A Mind All Their Own!": Figuring
Disability In The Horror Film Adaptations Of Renard's "Les Mains D'orlac.." Literature Film Quarterly
34.4 (2006): 294-302. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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ŞENTÜRK, Rıdvan. "Anxiety And Fear In Children's Films." Educational Sciences: Theory &
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Sharrett, Christopher. "The Problem Of Saw: "Torture Porn" And The Conservatism Of
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Smith, Richard Harland. "The Battle Inside: Infection And The Modern Horror Film." Cineaste
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Smith, Todd W. "Scary, Isn't It?." Outdoor Life 216.10 (2009): 8. Academic Search Premier. Web.
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Sparks, Glenn G. "Developing A Scale To Assess Cognitive Responses To Frightening Films."
Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 30.1 (1986): 65-73. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4
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Starnes, Bobby Ann. "On Nerds, Science Education, And Horror Films." Phi Delta Kappan 87.8
(2006): 634-635. Academic Search Premier. Web. 4 Feb. 2013.
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Telotte, J. P. "Faith And Idolatry In The Horror Film." Literature Film Quarterly 8.3 (1980): 143.
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Zalewski, Daniel. "Show The Monster." New Yorker 86.47 (2011): 40-53. Academic Search
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