Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.12.lc.5
(Ne)iskonski užas u kinematografiji Davida Lyncha i Jordana Peelea
Marko Lukić
; University of Zadar, Croatia
Irena Jurković
; University of Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The analysis of the horror genre points primarily to its fluidity, its extremes and the inexhaustible innovations, as well as the uniqueness of this genre to focus on various cultural phenomena and social anxieties, while criticizing and deconstructing dominant ideological constructs and paradigms. Within such a broad context, it is interesting to observe the possible difference between the idea of "ordinary" and "unusual" horror, i.e. the tendency of some authors to problematize the elements of everyday life of a society, and consequently to articulate a critical discourse, as opposed to those authors whose focus is exclusively on the imaginary. The proposed analysis therefore observes the cinematography of two authors – David Lynch and Jordan Peele, whose distinctive cinematic expression in the language of horror genre articulates a spectrum of intertwined subjective and social traumas. Guided by classical psychoanalytic readings of Sigmund Freud, together with contemporary theoretical musings of authors such as bell hooks, Allister Mactaggart, Todd McGowan, or Ijeome Oluo, the paper intends to point out the mechanisms of finding different sources of horror within everyday life that, through different ideological praxes become normalized and which authors like Lynch and Peele, through a genre transition, articulate as “abnormal” or “unusual”. This transition, or more specifically the amalgamation of real/"usual" social horrors to fictitious/"unusual" horrors of the genre, enables, in addition to the presentation of a layered social criticism, the formation of far more complex and long-term insights into the true evil of human nature.
Keywords
horror, primal horror, Jordan Peele, David Lynch
Hrčak ID:
279348
URI
Publication date:
19.6.2022.
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