O horror! horror! horror!

Abstract

This chapter examines some of the cultural and literary influences that helped to shape Shakespeare’s play, looking at several of the ways that he uses intertexts to help generate a horrific atmosphere. It then looks at influences that Macbeth has had on the Gothic genre before finally considering how some recent stage directors have attempted to re-imagine the horror of the play for modern audiences. Through this detailed examination of the play’s sources, and of its adaptations and modern productions, we can begin to understand how a potent sense of horror is generated in Macbeth and how that horror is regenerated for succeeding generations of the play’s audiences.

School Idleness In Consumer Socialization Strategies According To American Horror Film

“…The creation and promotion on a nationwide scale of a space of carefree and entertaining everyday life for young people makes it possible to safely and profitably channel their natural energy into a profitable, neutral and politically correct channel. The American horror film constantly emphasizes the fundamental nature of mental and civilizational contradictions, which once arose in the process of school socialization, later only reincarnated from film to film, each time reviving the horror "for future generations of viewers" (Power, 2016), which "bursts into our everyday life making it impossible to get out of this experience unscathed" (De León Ramírez, 2018, p. 230). Nevertheless, the ideological value of this cinematic genre, which explicitly condemns "authoritarianism through its villains" (Goodall, 2020, p. 123), lies in the persistent desire to visualize the deep contradictions between the individual creative impulses of each the student and the averaged, impersonal functionality of the entire system of disciplinary civilizational communication.…”

“…It is significant that the tradition of viewing horror films as a unique cultural text is also continued by Anglo-American "Cultural Studies", since such an interpretation allows us to cover the widest possible spectrum of manifestations of this genre (Fortuna, 2018;Power, 2016). The methodology for analyzing the ideological meanings of the visual socialization of young people also requires detailed psychological Herskovits (1955), who proposed the term inculturation, develops a methodology for analyzing cultural phenomena that are presented in conscious and unconscious forms.…”

Didactic And Heuristic Potential Of American Horror Cinema

“…In this semiotic tradition there are also Anglo-American "Cultural Studies", also interpreting the horror film as a special kind of cultural text. In the same vein, articles (Andrew, 2016;Fortuna, 2018;Jancovich, 2015;Kawin, 2012;Staiger, 2015) are presented, which consider various socio-cultural, political, feminist aspects of the study of this genre and ways of interpreting them. 422 not be approached from the standpoint of social stereotypes that evaluate it exclusively destructive.…”