In Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, Linda Williams breaks down the three “body genres,” films based on emphasizing physical reaction on-screen and delivering a similar subconscious, physical experience to the viewer – those genres being horror, pornography, and melodrama (or “weepies”). These three genres center on distinct yet equally powerful physical reactions: fear, orgasm,

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Permeating throughout the history of human interaction with and speculation surrounding alien intelligence and agency is a palpable sense of fear and discomfort, a disconnect from any clear understanding through our collective sensorium – yet it is perhaps this fear, this impasse in itself which draws us further toward that unreachable understanding. Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1989

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