Media representations play an important role in producing sociocultural pressures. Despite
social and legal progress in civil rights, restrictive gender-based representations appear to …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Slasher films, a popular and lucrative sub-genre of horror movie, are often thought to be
characterized by violence, gratuitous sexual content and specific, repetitive tropes; however …

This paper analyses the film industry as a social phenomenon through the lens of revised
modernisation theory. Revised modernisation theory implies that economic development …

Slasher films are known for their graphic depictions of sex, brutalization and death. Many
argue that these films sexualize and punish female characters. A content analysis of 48 …

Serial murder is a rare phenomenon, yet an incredibly popular topic as evidenced by the
availability of various types of entertainment media about serial murder. The present study …

Sex and the City and The L Word were two groundbreaking television shows aimed at
female audiences featuring explicit sexual content and queer characters; however, both …

Since its origins in the mid-1970s, the slasher has been defined as a subgenre of horror in
which a serial or mass killer stalks and massacres middle-class youngsters, and preferably …

The slasher film, which depicts teenagers stalked by homicidal maniacs, has been
experiencing waves of intense popularity since the late 1970s. In explaining the paradoxical …

The popularization of slasher as subgenre begins with the release of The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre and Halloween. Both films serve to define the topic of the subgenre: a serial killer …