Primal roots of horror cinema : evolutionary psychology and narratives of fear /
"Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology experts posit that behaviors from our ancestors that favored survival and adaptation still influence us today. The author, with input from a new generation of Darwinists, explores six primal narratives recurring in the horror genre: territoriality, trib...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 2001: a space odyssey
- The territorial narrative
- The assimilation narrative
- The tribal narrative
- The mating narrative in the Gothic romance
- The predator narrative
- The other narrative : ghosts, slashers, witches and robots as other.
