The Babadook, Vincent and the maternal horror: intertexts

Authors

  • Laura Canepa Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2015.90087

Keywords:

cinema, intertextuality, horror, maternal horror

Abstract

This paper investigates the intertextuality between the films The Babadook, by Jennifer Kent (Australia, 2014), and Vincent, by Tim Burton (USA, 1982). The connection between these two films will be examined from the idea of a narrative reconstruction of the Burton’s film by Kent’s by a procedure of reverse perspective. This procedure allows The Babadook to explore an important theme in horror stories that is only suggested in Vincent: the maternal horror (ARNOLD, 2013), a concept inspired by the authors as Julia Kristeva (1982) and Barbara Creed (1993).

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Author Biography

  • Laura Canepa, Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

    Doutora em Multimeios pelo IAR-Unicamp (2008), mestre em Ciências da Comunicação pela ECA-USP (2002) e graduada em Jornalismo pela FABICO-URFGS (1996), é, atualmente, professora do Mestrado em Comunicação da Universidade Anhembi Morumbi e Pós-Doutoranda no Departamento de Cinema, Televisão e Rádio da ECA-USP.

Published

2015-08-06

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How to Cite

The Babadook, Vincent and the maternal horror: intertexts. RuMoRes, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 17, p. 117–137, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.1982-677X.rum.2015.90087. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/Rumores/article/view/90087.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.