HORROR

Horror Genre

Horror Genre

Horror Genre

The horror genre has the feature of creating either a controlled sense of fear in the reader or a sense of morbidity (in the case of grisly terror called). If it is true that many horror stories fail to provoke fear, they can be clearly identified as within the genre as a repertoire of effects used for this purpose (Domaille, 2003, pp. 95-115). One of the earliest definitions of gender Guy de Maupassant gives the story at hand. The horror genre is only the creation of an atmosphere. Instead, the detective genre, we could say would add Guy de Maupassant is the development of a complex plot.

Unlike the real and genuine fear, the horror genre makes the reader a sense of fear, that is “playing to fear.” That is why the genre is a favorite of teens who may feel their emotions dominated front of the children actually feel afraid to see a horror movie (Domaille, 2003, pp. 95-115).

One of the theories of gender said that the horror genre is always talking about social concerns. Even many of the horror genre themes are redefine and reappear with a new value. For example, the subject of vampirism, among other things spoke of the social fear of homosexuality, as we have seen to allude to the story “The Vampire”, written by Dr. Polidori, or even “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. The issue of homosexuality is also a very serious text for the time that is written in the middle “Carmilla” Le Fanu. While for years the subject of vampirism going to fall asleep, will reappear very strong in the eighties with “Interview with a Vampire.” Now, talk about the blood supposed to talk about another social fear: fear of AIDS. Therefore, the emergence of the genre is that it places a actual identity to the great fears of society.

Sociology and Horror Genre

Sociology and Horror

There are many variants of sociology and horror. Among these:

1. The uncanny, the feeling of lost in the universe or the vertigo of being insubstantial and even non-existent; in the history of horror, the supernatural question that asks after the ground of all things: why are there beings rather than nothing? Why is there Being? In Gothic circles, the fear of the dead, ghosts or haunted may be translations of this fundamental anxiety. Compare Descartes' thought: 'Well, suppose I am dreaming, and these particulars, that I open my ...