This paper examines recent horror films in the US in relationship to the economic collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession. Using Rubber (2010) and Iron Invader (2011), it explores how the “killer commodity” resonates with working-class anxieties of dispossession and disposability, especially in the auto industries of the places where the films are set and produced: the US and France. The films...

Research on trust in e-commerce typically views trust as an important condition of successful commercial exchange. It aims to identify relevant factors of trust and establish how these influence potential buyers' decisions to interact with vendors. The aim is to provide ways of increasing trust. This paper questions the validity of this traditional approach to trust in e-commerce. It criticizes...

This study examined the prevalence, accessibility, and characteristics of eroticized smoking portrayal, also referred to as smoking fetish, on YouTube. The analysis of 200 smoking fetish videos revealed that the smoking fetish videos are prevalent and accessible to adolescents on the website. They featured explicit smoking behavior by sexy, young, and healthy females, with the content correspon...

In the traditional culture of ancient Fergana people, religious beliefs and views occupied a great place. Religious beliefs, while illuminating various aspects life society, covered behavioral norms, social relations, aesthetic views, others.In this article, as was case in all nations times, Valley, first forms religion - fetishism, animism, sorcery (magic), totemism, worshiping spirits parents...

Freudian investigation of the unconscious has reasonably altered interpretation Shakespeare’s seminal work, Hamlet. This research paper analyses notion ‘Fetishism’ with reference to eponymous play, During course this study, an attempt been made establish that Ghost in play is a conspicuous representation psychoanalytic fetish Moreover, motivations underlie development fetishes and way they affe...

Psychoanalytic treatment of addiction is often ineffective because therapists fail to recognize addiction as a discrete disorder. The author reviews psychoanalytic theories of addiction and presents an alternative concept comprising biological, behavioral, and psychological characteristics. She compares the structural similarities between addiction and perversion and describes the use of the ad...

Results of a functional analysis indicated that a man diagnosed with autism engaged in bizarre sexual behavior in the presence of women wearing sandals. Several treatments proved to be ineffective or impractical. By contrast, a response-interruption/time-out procedure quickly eliminated the problem behavior in multiple settings.

Writing in 1966, in an essay entitled “Difficulties,” Theodor Adorno saw modern music as, “faced with an alternative,” “that between the fetishism of the material and the process, on the one hand, and unfettered chance [in the form of aleatory music] on the other” (2002:660). In other words, after the collapse of tonality in the early twentieth century, composers could choose either to ignore t...