A Sociological Perspective Of Horror Film

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Culture, from a sociological perspective, is everything humans creates in establishing our relationships to nature and with each other including language, behavior, and knowledge. An example of culture includes but not limited to: the way a person would talk if they grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. vs a person who grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood or a criminal in prison has a code for no snitching, etc. From the video, we saw in class, culture is a subconscious of society. An example of this is “if horror films are nightmares of societal subconscious…” (quote from video), it seems that the villains in movies are victims of a traumatic experience that they went through. The Ring (2002) directed by Gore Verbinski was

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