Sipière, Dominique

The Monstrous Moment in Cinema: Reversibility, Trajectories, and Uses of Fear - 2011.


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This article starts from a scene in which a victim becomes a monster under the blows of the man who is to become its future victim. It suggests a study of the way horror films illustrate the instant when a monster is revealed both to the diegetic character and to the spectator. It concludes by examining some uses of horror in Hollywood films.