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Hvorfor bliver vi tiltrukket og fascineret af uhyggelige hændelser i fiktiv form? Hvad er det der gør, at vi ligefrem nyder at læse en roman eller se en film om en patologisk voldsforbryder, som vi ville være rædselsslagne over at møde i virkeligheden? Hvordan går det til, at personer, der ellers virker sunde og fornuftige, nyder det kolde gys, når vampyren blotter tænderne, når og psykopaten hæver øksen over (Misery) eller retter geværet (The...

With actress Pam Griers breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts filmsgenres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, wasand still isviewed with ambivalence. While women were cast in new and exciting roles, they did not always arrive with their femininity intact, often functioning more as a pseudo-male rather th...

Real war is a cruel theater of death, yet it is also an exciting narrative exploited for national, political and commercial purposes and turned into numerous films, television shows, computer games, news stories and reenactment plays. This book examines the relationship between war, visual media and entertainment from a number of academic perspectives such as film studies, cultural studies, new media studies, sociology and history. Key topics ...