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Animal horror cinema : genre, history and criticism
- 2015
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The first academic study of the genre of animal horror cinema is essential for cinema and animal studies scholars as well as for fans of horror film. It defines this popular sub-genre, outlines its history and studies recent films as well as cult classics from a variety of perspectives. A central idea in the book is that animal horror cinema mirrors socially entrenched fears of and attitudes toward animals. Thus, animal horror cinema reveals attitudes toward the fabric of social life, the fragility of the eco-system and a deep uncertainty about what makes humans different from animals. The book contains chapters by scholars with different national and disciplinary backgrounds, and therefore offers a wide range of interpretations on the significance of the animal in modern horror film.
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B-Movie Gothic : International Perspectives
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic expression of social and cultural anxieties. Influencing new trends in European, Asian and African filmmaking, these films carried on the tradition established by the Gothic novel, and yet they remain part of a largely neglected subject. B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature. It shows how B-movie Gothic is a relentlessly creative form, filled with political tensions and moving from shocking conservatism to profound social critique.
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- Bastami, Salumeh, 1967-
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Practical and clinical use of opioids
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Pain is a common symptom of a number of conditions including cancer and one of the most frequent reasons for seeking healthcare. Acute and chronic pain result in considerable discomfort with a detrimental impact on the quality of life. Opioids are the mainstay of pain management for many patients with severe pain. Opioids are, unfortunately, also commonly abused drugs, and are well-represented in forensic toxicology investigations.Side effects related to the central nervous system are the major reasons fordiscontinuation of opioid treatment. In this thesis, we tested the hypothesis that local analgesic treatment by opioids, without the usual opioid-related side effects, could be a potential alternative to systemic opioid treatment. We examined the analgesic effect of topically applied morphine in a randomized, double blind, cross over study in patients with painful leg ulcers. Significant reduction of pain was obtained after application of both morphine and placebo gel. Morphine reduced pain more than placebo but the difference was not statistically significant. However, morphine could reduce pain considerably more than placebo in those cases where VAS (Visual analog scale) was higher initially.Another issue with opioid therapy is the substantial individual variability in response to opioids including morphine and tramadol. We investigated the significance of UGT2B7, CYP2D6, OPRM1 and ABCB1 polymorphisms for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of morphine and tramadol. We showed that genetic variants in CYP2D6 and UGT2B7 have an important role in the metabolism of tramadol and morphine respectively. While the role of SNPs in ABCB1 remained unclear, genetic variants in OPRM1 gene were correlated with the required dose of morphine. Taken together, these findings suggest that genotypes should be taken into consideration when interpreting clinical pharmacology and forensic toxicology results.Opioids, besides their analgesic properties, have other pharmacological effects including effects on immune system. We evaluated potential differences between commonly used opiates with regard to their effect on the immune system. We found an inhibition of cytokine release, in the order of potency as follows: tramadol > ketobemidone >morphine >fentanyl. All opioids with the exception of fentanyl were capable of inhibiting production of mRNAs for TNF-alpha and IL-8. Further studies are needed to understand the clinical implications of the observed immunosuppressive effects of opioids and to improve opioid treatment strategies in patients with cancer.Here, we have found that individual genotype matters and affects the individual response. Further research is warranted to tailor individualized treatment. Personalized medicine has increased in importance and will hopefully in the near future become standard procedure to improve and predict the outcome of treatment by opioids.
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth : The Gothic Anthropocene
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars move beyond longstanding perspectives on the Anthropocene—such as science fiction and apocalyptic narratives—to show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction.Embracing pop cultural phenomena like True Detective, Jaws, and Twin Peaks, as well as topics from the New Weird and prehistoric shark fiction to ruin porn and the “monstroscene,” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Gothic while opening important new paths of inquiry. These essays map a genealogy of the Gothic while providing fresh perspectives on the ongoing climate chaos, the North/South divide, issues of racialization, dark ecology, questions surrounding environmental justice, and much more.
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- Duncan, Rebecca, et al.
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Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic : On Being in this Together
- 2021
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Ingår i: Approaching Religion. - : Approaching Religion. - 1799-3121. ; 11:2, s. 115-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At its inception, the COVID-19 pandemic was described as something inherently new, capable of crossing and erasing the economic, racial, gendered, and religious divides that stratify societies around the world. However, the ongoing pandemic is not new or egalitarian, but fuelled by, and fuelling, crises already under way on a global scale. In this article we examine on the one hand the relationship between the pandemic and still-active formations of racialised and gendered power, and on the other the pandemic's inextricability from a dispersed and uneven planetary emergency. As the environmental historian Jason W. Moore notes, this emergency disproportionately affects ‘women, people of colour and (neo)colonial populations’ (2019: 54), and the effects of COVID-19 are similarly unevenly allocated.
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- Gregersdotter, Katarina, et al.
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A History of Animal Horror Cinema
- 2015
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Ingår i: Animal Horror Cinema. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137496386 ; , s. 19-36
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter outlines the history of Animal Horror Cinema and highlights important periods and discursive developments within the genre. The chapter also discusses this type of cinema in relation to other kinds of horror films and observes that the focus on the relation between animality and humanity makes films like Jaws (1975), The Birds (1963) and Cujo (1983) different in theoretically significant ways from supernatural horror narratives and from ‘eco-horror’ films. Economic and technical restrictions often mean that animal horror films are not realist in a strict sense. The size of animals is often exaggerated and they are given human traits. Even so, human characters’ encounters with animals in animal horror cinema is more ‘real’ than the kind of encounters with the invisible, supernatural forces from beyond the realm of reality that have dominated the history of horror cinema.
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- Gregersdotter, Katarina, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Animal Horror Cinema. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137496386 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction to this volume is intended as a tool for future study of Animal Horror Cinema. It first defines this type of Cinema as films that describe how a particular animal or an animal species commit a transgression against humanity and then recounts the punishment the animal must suffer as a consequence. The introductory chapter then discusses how Animal Horror Cinema both cements and complicates the basic conceptual separation of the human and non-human animal and how it raises crucial questions concerning human and animal ethics and the Anthropocene; the present era when humanity itself has become a destructive geological force. This chapter also discusses how the study of Animal Horror Cinema frequently explores matters of colonialism and postcolonialism, and how the genre interrogates gender and sexuality through the animal.
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- Gregersdotter, Katarina, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Animal Horror Cinema. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137496386 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction to this volume is intended as a tool for future study of Animal Horror Cinema. It first defines this type of Cinema as films that describe how a particular animal or an animal species commit a transgression against humanity and then recounts the punishment the animal must suffer as a consequence. The introductory chapter then discusses how Animal Horror Cinema both cements and complicates the basic conceptual separation of the human and non-human animal and how it raises crucial questions concerning human and animal ethics and the Anthropocene; the present era when humanity itself has become a destructive geological force. This chapter also discusses how the study of Animal Horror Cinema frequently explores matters of colonialism and postcolonialism, and how the genre interrogates gender and sexuality through the animal.
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- Grgic, Ana, et al.
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Special issue introduction : representation of diasporic food cultures
- 2024
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Ingår i: Food, Culture, and Society. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1552-8014 .- 1751-7443. ; 27:2, s. 293-296
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Diasporic food cultures enter dominant societies through a variety of manners and spaces, in homes, at food fairs, restaurants, through cookbooks, in supermarkets, but also in visual media. This special section investigates how the representations of diasporic food cultures in popular television and film mediate a variety of food traditions which negotiate and challenge dominant societal assumptions about the present, the past and the future of food and eating, and their complex relationships to race, class, gender, identity and the environment. The contributions to the issue note how the meeting of various diasporic culinary traditions and the often already transcultural host food traditions marks the start of new, feminist, decolonial food cultures, identities and futures, which raise critical questions about our food culture. This investigation of the representation of diasporic food cultures not only reveals the continuing transmutation of food cultures but more importantly the transformation of culture as such, within an increasingly polarized, uneven and fortified world where the dominant food system contributes to a social and ecological breakdown.
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- Holmgren Troy, Maria, 1962-
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Nordic Gothic
- 2020
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
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