Author: Rick Worlund Year of Release: 2006 The Horror Film examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics throughout the medium’s history, from the 1920s to the present. This brief volume offers a broad, historical introduction to cinematic horror, outlining and investigating important issues in […]
Gratuitous Violence in Film
One of the questions about Cinema Therapy is whether there is any therapeutic value in violence. The Urban Dictionary defines gratuitous violence as violence for the sake of being violent, usually associated with low budget movies and cult videogames. It is also often without need, and often unrealistic. It seems that almost any genre of […]
2012 Top 10 Cinema Therapy Films
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious. Faced with her hot-tempered father’s fading health and flooding in her ramshackled bayou community, a six-year-old girl struggles to be […]
Homeland: The Series
Claire Danes’s performance as an off-the-rails federal agent may be the best thing about Homeland, but it’s certainly not the only thing to admire about a show that’s the visual equivalent of a page-turner. The focus here is on the specter of domestic terrorism. When Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), missing and presumed dead […]
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