The Appearance and Resonance of Apocalyptic Archetypes in Contemporary Disaster Films by Chi-Ying Yu

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has roused the apocalyptic fear that was foreseen in religious prophecies. This research will focus on the post-9/11 and pre-COVID-19 disaster films, in an attempt to understand the representation and pre-presentation of the collective disaster psychology. …”
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Three paradigms of horror by Dejan Ognjanović

“…Paradigm 1 concerns the “fear of one’s own self”: the root of the fear is inside, in the individual psyche, in the split, deceived, or in some other way unreliable self which is, consciously or unconsciously, harmful to others, and ultimately to itself. …”
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“Time of the Barbarians”: The Phenomenon of Barbarism in the Film Brother 2 by Aleksey Balabanov by Evgeniy O. Tretyakov

“…There is no worthy test for Bagrov’s heroism, because the world does not correspond to its scale, and therefore the hero is restless – the truly barbaric fullness of vitality does not protect against existential fear. The discrepancy between the attitudes of the barbarian hero and the position of the intellectual director unmasks the author’s alienation from the principles and common truths of the character and complicates the film with dramatic connotations.…”
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The Warning Messages of Jeanne DuPrau’sThe City of Ember to the World with Reference to Gil Kenan’s Film Adaptation: The Theory of Conspiracy by Mayada Zuhair Al-Khafaji, Ansam Yaroub

“…The research studies four vital messages; the first message is that history repeats itself for the novel has many allusions to the history of Jews and their painful holocaust and even goes back in history the days of Moses and the Exodus, the second message tackles the conspiracy theory that states nothing happens by accident and that everything is planned and connected hence comes the third message incarnated in the film adaptation of the novel, secret societies do exist namely the freemasons. …”
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More than Meets the (Heterosexual) Eye: Soldierly Queerness, Wartime Bisexuality, and Fred Zinnemann’s Films Starring Montgomery Clift by Kylo-Patrick R. HART

“…When it comes to director Fred Zinnemann’s two films starring Montgomery Clift – 1948’s The Search and 1953’s From Here to Eternity – there is certainly much more going on at the level of intriguing subtext than typically meets the (heterosexual) eye. …”
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CMS.S60 / CMS.S96 Technopanics: Moral Panics about Technology, Spring 2013 by Szablewicz, Marcella Therese

“…We will begin by studying how similar panics about "old" media (books, film, television and even the written word itself) set historical precedents for these current fears. …”
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The Virus of Dissolution: by Miranda Jakiša

“…More importantly, it is a film about Yugoslav fear: a fear of the other, especially the oriental or Muslim other and thus of the ‘alien’ within. …”
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Intersection of monstrosity, ecological imperialism and hope in Bong Joon-ho’s "The Host" and Indra Sinha’s "Animal’s People" by Siti Nurhasyimah Othman

“…Evidently, monstrosityThe monstrous manifests itself as a strange amphibious creature found in the Han River in Bong Joon-ho’s monster film The Host. …”
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Ghiñn by Arijeet Mandal

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Unconscious Mind and Anxiety in the Main Character of Face in the Crowd Movie Script by Julian Magnad by Dewi Saktiyah Al Khoiriyah

“…Anxiety objectivy reality itself is an anxiety that comes from the fear of the danger in the outside world. …”
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Eschatological Technophobia: Cinematic Anticipations of the Singularity by Daniel Conway

“…This fear, I maintain, is itself an expression of a deeper anxiety pertaining to the possibility (or likelihood) that the achievements of humankind matter very little, if at all, especially when evaluated on a cosmic scale. …”
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Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender by Kirsty Duncanson, Catriona Elder, Murray Pratt

“…Yet while, within the film’s knowingly reflexive purview any remaining potential for racism is understood and itself under control – we know how to be good mutliculturalists –it is the trope of sexuality in Lantana that provides the real sense of edginess and anxiety about belonging. …”
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Entanglement and the Modern Australian Rhythm Method: Lantana’s Lessons in Policing Sexuality and Gender by Kirsty Duncanson, Catriona Elder, Murray Pratt

“…Yet while, within the film’s knowingly reflexive purview any remaining potential for racism is understood and itself under control – we know how to be good mutliculturalists –it is the trope of sexuality in Lantana that provides the real sense of edginess and anxiety about belonging. …”
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The Psychos Are Coming, the Psychos Are Coming … They’re Already Here by Edmund Weisberg

“…Fear, in contagion films, is as rampantly contagious as the infection in question. …”
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Bringing American Popular Culture to the English Departments in Indonesia* by Dewi N.

“…The speed with which American music, films, and goods have flooded the markets worldwide is remarkably high, thanks to the advancement of telecommunication technologies and the Internet. …”
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What do Sci-Fi, Literature, and Art have to do with Bioethics? by Julia Bolzon

“…Instead of stating the moral as a matter-of-fact, a story is told so that the interlocutor can enter into it and experience it, allowing one to receive the truth that is hidden or veiled within the parable, which the parable itself only conceals or signifies. Consider the experience of “reading” art: in literature, film, or perhaps even an artwork, we undergoor experience the work, letting it work on us inasmuch as we are the ones to read or watch it. …”
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THE PERIPHERY OF THE SPECTACLE: THE SPOILER AND THE TEASER / ПЕРИФЕРИЯ ЗРЕЛИЩА: СПОЙЛЕР И ТИЗЕР by KOZLOV EVGENY V. / КОЗЛОВ Е.В.

“…In this aspect, for example, the fear of spoilers (spoiler-phobia) to a large extent becomes a basis. …”
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The history of the Michelin Red Guide by Olha Romanchuk, Rostyslav Koval, Mariia Paska, Andrii Holod, Oksana Nykyha

“…They actively write culinary bestsellers, participate in the filming of reality shows, films and TV programs, found schools, and also work in the format of takeaway food and food trucks. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Grotesque Components in the Two works of Jean Teulé's Suicide Shop and Houshang Golshiri's Prince Ehtjab by Rouhollah Nematollahi

“…In other words, fun and fear are mixed together. Of course, this combination often leads to the awakening of the audience. …”
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The Dead Walk by Bill Phillips, Marlene Mendoza

“…In recent years the rise in the popularity of the zombie in films, books and television series reflects our fears for the planet, the economy, and of death itself…”
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