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Category Archives: Victor Turner
Stand by Me & Animal House – Liminality & Communitas
There are two films that best capture Victor Turner’s ‘liminality’ and ‘communitas’: Stand by Me and Animal House. They are not about tribes in remote parts of the world. They are about young kids growing up or refusing to grow … Continue reading
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Trick ‘r Treat (part 2): Sacrifice, Rite of Passage, and ‘Othering’
The School Bus Massacre – Sacrifice and ‘Othering’ A group of children go from door to door trick ‘r treating but also collect jack-o’-lanterns. Alpha-girl Macy (Britt McKillip) tells the other kids of the ‘school bus massacre’. Thirty years prior, … Continue reading
Posted in 'othering', entertainment, fairytales, fantasy/supernatural, good & evil, Halloween, horror, Mary Douglas, myth, purity, ritual, sacrifice, society, tradition, Trick 'r Treat, vampires, Van Gennep, Victor Turner
Tagged anthropology, Halloween, Mary Douglas, ritual, sacrifice, Trick 'r Treat, vampires, Van Gennep, Victor Turner
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Trick ‘r Treat (part 1): Tradition and Ritual
The reason why I like horror is that it reverses the order of things. Those who fit society, be they conventional types or ‘alpha men and women’, are ridiculed, tortured, and killed. Horror is not just about our subconscious or … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, Halloween, horror, ritual, tradition, Trick 'r Treat, Victor Turner
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Cabin in the Woods – Sacrifice, Scientific Modernity, and the Entertainment Society
The films starts off with the all too common horror trope of college students setting off for a weekend in a cabin in the woods. The students seem at first corny stereotypes from a B-movie, but they are quickly shown to be … Continue reading
Posted in America, Cabin in the Woods, entertainment, fantasy/supernatural, femininity, gender, horror, humanity, myth, purity, sacrifice, science, society, technology, Victor Turner
Tagged anthropology, Cabin in the Woods, entertainment, gender, horror, sacrifice
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Cinema through Sociology & Anthropology 