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Observe, Dismember, Overcome: "Resident Evil 4" (2005; 2023) and "Dead Space" (2008; 2023) as Video Game Extensions of the Body Horror Subgenre
Baran, Paweł Michał
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and ... -
Echoes of Evil: Haunted Houses and Lingering Terrors in "The Amityville Horror" and "The Conjuring"
Seltnerajch, Julia (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
Bruce F. Kawin defines horror by its recurring motifs and its primary goal: to frighten and unsettle the audience (4). Beyond its entertainment value, horror functions within a dynamic semiotic space, where spatial structures ... -
Ideologia zza wrót piekieł. Polityczne znaczenie yōkai w filmach Kaneto Shindō — "Onibaba" (1964) i "Kuroneko" (1968)
Krauze, Maciej (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article examines Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968), two films by Kaneto Shindō that explore the destructive aftermath of war within the context of Japanese history and culture. Both films draw heavily on Japanese ... -
Słowiańskie strachy we współczesnej polskiej literaturze fantastycznej
Siedlecka-Jamiołkowska, Paulina (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article presents examples of the use of old Slavic beliefs by authors of contemporary Polish horror, including stories included in five anthologies published by Horror Masakra in 2016– 2023, in the unrelated Żertwa. ... -
W stronę kultury przyjemności.: Recenzja The Philosophy of Pleasure Katarzyny de Lazari-Radek
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)The text is a review of the book The Philosophy of Pleasure by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. The author considers the book from a cultural perspective. -
Architektura, ciało, klimat. Przyjemność dążenia do zmiany
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)Does the quest to reduce architectures negative impact on the climate have to involve “designing for discomfort”? In this text, I consider whether a turn toward pleasurable experiences in the realm of everyday life can ... -
Nitro matcha z Kopenhagi, Avobagiel z San Francisco, Kimchibowl z Berlina. Przyjemnościowa analiza zjawiska Global Brooklyn
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)The article explores the Global Brooklyn phenomenon described by Mateusz Halawa and Fabio Parasecoli, as a cultural formation that is transforming urban gastronomic spaces, making them centralized zones of consumer pleasure ... -
The Right to Happiness and its Constitutionalization
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)The paper addresses how happiness, traditionally a subjective and philosophical concept, has increasingly become an objective of constitutional frameworks. Through historical, philosophical, and legal analyses, it explores ... -
Między przyjemnością tekstu a obrazu. Przypadek Alberto Fugueta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)In 1988, a referendum was held in which Chileans decided to remove General Pinochet’s regime from power. A year later, the first free elections since 1970 were held and the political transition began, making room for new ... -
Odrzucanie sterylności. Przyczynek do rozpoznania wartości hedonicznych i witalnych w sporze o gender
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-23)The article adopts a perspective in which relations between values are examined on a basis of cultural products and practices. The object of analysis is the gender dispute, which is treated as an axiotic space, which is a ... -
Co widzisz? "Profesor" Johna Katzenbacha jako horror psychologiczny. Kilka uwag
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)John Katzenbach’s novel — What comes next (2010) — does not seem to be a horror, because it tells a crime story: the kidnapping, imprisonment of a teenager, and the creation and sharing of an Internet series with the ... -
Audialny wymiar grozy we wczesnej prozie Jakuba Małeckiego
Kurkiewicz, Marek (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
A horror story, a genre whose primary role is to instill fear in its audience, uses a variety of methods to achieve its goal. One of these is the skillful building of a mood using the acoustic plane. The following article ... -
Zbrodnia w afekcie. Afektywny potencjał figury wampira-seryjnego mordercy w prozie Tadeusza Konwickiego
Piskorska, Jadwiga (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article analyzes the figure of the vampire-lust-murderer in the works of Tadeusz Konwicki, focusing on the novels Nic albo nic (1971) and Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (1984). The figure is set in the social and ... -
Rethinking Terror and Horror with Plato, Aristotle, and Shakespeare
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)This article addresses a blank spot in Gothic studies and in studies of ways in which literature purveys terror, horror, and fear. In the last decades, Gothic studies, including Jacek Mydla’s book, have broadened their ... -
Dracula Meets the Music Video
Fisiak, Tomasz (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The following article will attempt to establish an intertextual link between one of the seminal examples of Gothic literature, i.e., Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and the still relatively new medium of music video. To ... -
A Milestone in the Field of Dracula Studies: Elizabeth Miller and the Perception of History in Bram Stoker’s Vampire Novel
Crisan, Marius-Mircea (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This paper starts with a short overview of the critical reception of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and focuses its investigation on the role of the Canadian professor Elizabeth Russell Miller (16 February 1939 — 2 January ... -
Haunted Sketches: Analyzing the Foundations of Horror in Early Works by Tove Jansson and Walt Disney
Płuciennik, Jarosław; Suvilehto, Pirjo (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article explores the early artistic influences and beginnings of Tove Jansson and Walt Disney, focusing on their works’ gothic and surreal elements. Both Jansson and Disney are renowned for their contributions to ... -
Wpływ anglojęzycznych tłumaczeń literatury grozy w 1990–1995 na kształtujące się po 1989 roku polskie realizacje gatunku
Mazurkiewicz, Adam (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article is devoted to the formation of a new horizon of expectations towards horror literature, which appeared on the literary market and was influenced by translations between the years 1989–1995. At the same time, ... -
"Weird fiction" a horror. Uwagi terminologiczno-genologiczne
Poniatyszyn, Kajetan (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The two complementary aims of this article are a terminological and genological analysis of weird fiction, as well as the identification of similarities and differences between this genre and horror in cognitive-aesthetic, ... -
Horror jako gatunek transmedialny — prolegomena
Zatora, Anna; Staszenko-Chojnacka, Dominika (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article is an introduction to the exploration of horror as a transmedia genre. Contemporary horror is growing in popularity and functions in various media: literature, film, video games, streaming platforms, comics, ...