Parenthood, Adolescence and Childhood Under the Knife

Halloween ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Murray Leeder ◽  
Murray Leeder
Keyword(s):  
Horror Film ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Slasher Films

This chapter examines adolescence as a central theme in Halloween (1978) in a slightly different way, as invoking (and attempting to resolve) the rootlessness of adolescence in the Lost Generation. The character of Laurie Strode is divided between the realms of adults and children, but this capacity for category mobility ultimately proves valuable. Cast in the roles both of virgin and mother, her ability to properly navigate, embrace adult responsibilities and retrain a child's intuition is ultimately what allows Laurie to save herself. The 1950s and John Carpenter's childhood saw the birth of the teen horror film, which followed swiftly on the heels of the ‘invention’ of the American teenager as a discrete segment of the population. In a sense, Halloween is an inheritor to the ‘horror teenpics’ or the ‘weirdies’ of the 1950s, and similarly owed much of its success to its ability to knowingly target the large teenage demographic. The slasher films that followed Halloween would do the same, and it seems no major exaggeration to say that, if slasher films collectively are ‘about’ anything, they are about adolescence.

The House of Sci-Fi: Hammer and Science Fiction

The Damned ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Nick Riddle
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Crime Dramas ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Slasher Films

This chapter examines Hammer and its history with science fiction. Hammer had become, by 1963, an easy studio to pin down: the broader production slate of the 1950s had been narrowed to mainly produce Gothic horror and modern thriller/slasher films, with little interest in cultural 'respectability'. Since Hammer's first feature-length film, however, its slate of releases covered a multitude of subjects and genres such as mysteries, comedies, crime dramas and noirs, and science fiction. A certain amount of commentary on Joseph Losey's The Damned (1963) has identified it as an anomaly in the Hammer catalogue. There is its frequent description as a kind of hybrid, mixing the biker/delinquent movie with the science fiction genre; but Hammer had previous form in this department. The genre mix in The Damned is more ungainly than most because, rather than running concurrently throughout the film, the genres tend to interrupt each other.

scholarly journals Z Transylwanii do Hollywood i nieśmiertelności. Przypadek Beli Lugosiego

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kocot-Wierska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
The 1950S

The aim of the article is to present the film career of a famous actor Bela Lugosi (1882–1956) and its most important turning points. Born as Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in Austria-Hungary Lugosi was one of the most important stars of „The Golden Age” of Hollywood horror film in the 1930s but soon after his huge success in a role of Dracula in Tod Browning’s film he had to cope with a career breakdown. Horror as a genre and its changes during the 1930s, the 1940s and the 1950s and the myth of Dracula-Lugosi are the main frames of the article. The author describes also his significant place in popular culture and asks about his hypothetical presence in the notable horror film movements that reached popularity just after Lugosi’s death.

scholarly journals All Roof, No Wall: Peter Boston, A-Frames and the Primitive Hut in Twentieth-Century British Architecture, c. 1890–1970

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 237-269
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McKellar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Building Culture ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
British Architecture ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Modern House

AbstractA very particular type of modern house in Britain — A-frames of the 1950s and 1960s — emerged from a much longer history of British and Scandinavian-German primitivism centred on the cruck-frame. This article focuses on a small number of architect-designed examples and introduces one of the main proponents of the type, Peter Boston (1918–99). The tension between the A-frame's familiarity as a universal dwelling type and its adoption as a signifier of modernity is a central theme. In the British twentieth-century context, the ‘modern’ included a strong vernacular element, and the new A-frames, which formed part of the ‘timber revival’ of the 1950s and 1960s, were informed by a long-standing interest in the history of cruck-framed construction from the Arts and Crafts onwards, which in turn was part of a wider pan-north European building culture.

Uncollected Poems

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Virginia F. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Technical Content ◽  
The 1950S

The poems described in this chapter never appeared as part of a collected volume during Frost’s lifetime, but are included here because they have noteworthy scientific or technical content. Because the poems were written over a span of about sixty years (1903-1962), there is no central theme. Not surprisingly, the poems cover topics Frost visited throughout his life: descriptions of manufacturing technology occur in “The Mill City” and “When the Speed Comes;” thoughts about astronomy and the nature of starlight appear in “The Lost Faith,” “Pursuit of the Word,” “Dear Louis,” and “Were that star shining there by name;” the theme of waste in nature appears in “The Favored Acorn” and two short poems from the 1950s. There is even a poem – with a Latin title - about chemical birth control methods: “Pares Continuas Fututiones.”

Stimulus Ratio Effects on Speech Discrimination by Children and Adults

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan E. Sussman
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Task ◽  
Response Pattern ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Speech Discrimination ◽  
Adult Group ◽  
Discrimination Accuracy ◽  
Formant Frequency ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Adults And Children

This investigation examined the response strategies and discrimination accuracy of adults and children aged 5–10 as the ratio of same to different trials was varied across three conditions of a “change/no-change” discrimination task. The conditions varied as follows: (a) a ratio of one-third same to two-thirds different trials (33% same), (b) an equal ratio of same to different trials (50% same), and (c) a ratio of two-thirds same to one-third different trials (67% same). Stimuli were synthetic consonant-vowel syllables that changed along a place of articulation dimension by formant frequency transition. Results showed that all subjects changed their response strategies depending on the ratio of same-to-different trials. The most lax response pattern was observed for the 50% same condition, and the most conservative pattern was observed for the 67% same condition. Adult response patterns were most conservative across condition. Differences in discrimination accuracy as measured by P(C) were found, with the largest difference in the 5- to 6-year-old group and the smallest change in the adult group. These findings suggest that children’s response strategies, like those of adults, can be manipulated by changing the ratio of same-to-different trials. Furthermore, interpretation of sensitivity measures must be referenced to task variables such as the ratio of same-to-different trials.

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