The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema
Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brent Yergensen (0000-0002-4834-8175, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-152 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2024-002 |
| OpenAlex | W4401757305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
By connecting Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to Edvard Munch’s concepts of artistic form, this study demonstrates the horror aesthetic in cinematic narrative structures that culminate toward discomforting endings. Negative dialectics is applicable as a cinema didactic via magnification of difficulty through narrative endings that depict elusive villains
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dialectic · Epistemology · Literature · Movie theater · Cinema and Media Studies · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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No Country for Old Men
Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment
Edvard Munch
Negative dialectics in music
Sorrowful Empire, Distempered Union
Skeletal figures – Presence and the unrepresentable in images of catastrophe
Drinking and Disappearing
Camp Horror and the Gendered Politics of Screen Violence
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman
Composing for the Films’ (1947)
Films without a Face
Gangs and guilt
Horror, apocalypse and world politics
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |