Terminal Films.

This paper analyzes two films, The Ring and Pulse, as examples of "terminal films"--a recent development in the science fiction / horror hybrid genre. I suggest that these terminal films articulate an anxiety of the precarious ontological status of the human in a posthuman world. Employing the conce...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 25; no. 2/3; pp. 264 - 278
Autor principal: Christiansen, Steen
Formato: Film/TV Criticism and Review
Publicado: International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 2014
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