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The document discusses how the themes in horror genres have shifted over time to reflect cultural fears. In the early 20th century, external monsters dominated and represented fears of invasion or science being used destructively. More recently, the focus has shifted to internal monsters, reflecting 20th century events like the Holocaust that showed humanity's capacity for evil, as well as increased understanding of abnormal psychology and a less religious society where evil is seen as a human trait rather than an external force.
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conquest of new living space in the east and its ruthless Germanization.”
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Great Depression. The apparent triumph of liberal democracy in 1919 had proven to be
extremely short-lived. Italy had installed a fascist regime in the 1920s, and the Soviet Union
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licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0):
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“The Mindworm”:
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Abstract: Through a close reading of C. M. Kornbluth’s “The Mindworm”
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Keywords: science fiction, supernatural, post-war America
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plot is relatively simple – a mutant vampire protagonist stalks and kills his prey and is
himself killed at the end.1 Kornbluth’s story, a beautifully crafted tribute to the author’s
conviction that science fiction can and should function as social criticism, is in fact a
1 This era was also noted for science-fictional vampires in films including The Thing (1951), Not of this
Earth (1956), and It (1958).
Kristin Bidoshi "The Mindworm": Kornbluth's Post-War
American Vampire Tale at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
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Cultural Theories - Winter 2011
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3) Growing doubts about religion as it failed to address problems.
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