Horror and modernity.

• Main Author: Kong, Hui Xian.
• Other Authors: Jaume Torres
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51751
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper aims to explore how technological cultural objects in Asian horror films convey the general fear of modernity. Interpretative content analysis is used to analyse manifest content and latent meaning for ten Asian horror films that were randomly selected to examine the meanings and uses of...