Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films

In this article, we attempt to unravel the family-based haunted house film patterns in both Malaysia and America. Certain types of tropes and attributes have been used by horror filmmakers over the years to define the family motif-pattern of haunted houses in the media. Some of these elements have...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, Anita Harris Satkunananthan
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12863/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12863/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12863/1/20403-65586-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-128632019-05-06T21:45:33Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12863/ Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, Anita Harris Satkunananthan, In this article, we attempt to unravel the family-based haunted house film patterns in both Malaysia and America. Certain types of tropes and attributes have been used by horror filmmakers over the years to define the family motif-pattern of haunted houses in the media. Some of these elements have undergone change over time but most of them still adhere to the rules that constitute the family-based haunted house film patterns based on two Malay films and two American films. These rules were compared and contrasted by applying a combination of two theories which were formulated by Propp and Bailey. Application of these formulas has resulted in the findings of twelve plot functions as examined in this article. Upon analysis of the corpus, it has also been found that there are 10 existing attributes of a haunted house. The findings suggest that the haunted house film pattern is not merely a motif but it is also able to exhibit a number of themes which are considered prominent in haunted house films such as the Manichean clash between good and evil. The convergence and divergence between the Malaysian and American horror flicks show that cultural and religious practices govern the ways in which good and evil are expressed. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12863/1/20403-65586-1-PB.pdf Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, and Noraini Md Yusof, and Anita Harris Satkunananthan, (2017) Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (4). pp. 170-183. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1059
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description	In this article, we attempt to unravel the family-based haunted house film patterns in both Malaysia and America. Certain types of tropes and attributes have been used by horror filmmakers over the years to define the family motif-pattern of haunted houses in the media. Some of these elements have undergone change over time but most of them still adhere to the rules that constitute the family-based haunted house film patterns based on two Malay films and two American films. These rules were compared and contrasted by applying a combination of two theories which were formulated by Propp and Bailey. Application of these formulas has resulted in the findings of twelve plot functions as examined in this article. Upon analysis of the corpus, it has also been found that there are 10 existing attributes of a haunted house. The findings suggest that the haunted house film pattern is not merely a motif but it is also able to exhibit a number of themes which are considered prominent in haunted house films such as the Manichean clash between good and evil. The convergence and divergence between the Malaysian and American horror flicks show that cultural and religious practices govern the ways in which good and evil are expressed.
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author	Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, Anita Harris Satkunananthan,
spellingShingle	Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, Anita Harris Satkunananthan, Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
author_facet	Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Noraini Md Yusof, Anita Harris Satkunananthan,
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title	Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
title_short	Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
title_full	Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
title_fullStr	Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
title_full_unstemmed	Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films
title_sort	unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in malaysian and american haunted house films
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Unravelling the family-based haunted house film patterns in Malaysian and American haunted house films

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