![]() ![]() ![]() I thought that by looking at the way horror film thematizes the act of making and creating, I could get at the question of whether horror is the most self-reflexive of genres.Ī strong prima facie case could be made for horror’s being…the most self-reflexive of cinematic genres. While Clover looks at the prevalence of eyes in horror, I took a data-driven approach. While there is a lot that I wanted to do, I ended up limiting the project very specifically to looking at proportions of films that are and are not horror, as coded by crowd-sourcing in IMDb, in relation to the use of words that are associated with acts of creative expression or making. But also, working with a lot of IMDb data, and learning cool things about Python, R, Tableau, Illustrator, Gephi, and horror film.įor the past three months or so, I’ve been pulling together a passion project of mine–seeking a way to prove Carol Clover’s statement in Men, Women, and Chainsaws that “ strong prima facie case could be made for horror’s being…the most self-reflexive of cinematic genres” (168). But the end is in sight! What have I been up to?īasically, tearing my hair out. ![]() I’ve been pretty silent on this space for a while now, because all my time has been consumed with finishing my degree project for MICA’s Data Analytics and Visualization program. ![]()
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