Terrifying Nudity: the Naked Truth of Horror Film

Attitudes towards the naked body vary from culture to culture. Even within one culture, the nakedness often symbolises very different and sometimes arbitrarily contradictory things. It can be associated with eroticism, sanctity, aggression, a certain type of culture (from savagery to elitism), etc....

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Published in:	Corpus Mundi
Main Author:	Olesya S. Yakushenkova
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Limited Liability Company Scientific Industrial Enterprise “Genesis. Frontier. Science” 2022-05-01
Subjects:	nudity nakedness the nude the other vampire palimpsest body monster
Online Access:	https://corpusmundi.com/index.php/cmj/article/view/62

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