Horror Without Limit In How's My Mom

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The creation of the motion picture allowed content to be easily accessible to the public. There were no longer any restrictions of requiring multiple performers to be at a show. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster references the Motion Picture Producers Directors Association in “Performing Modernity and Gender in the 1930s” stating that film allows for “the possibility of duplicating” (94). It could be distributed in areas that other forms of art could not “penetrate” and easily evoke emotion to the audiences (94). Horror without limits is frequently portrayed on film and media giving the audience a sense of tension release (from reality). The film clip “How’s My Mom?” from White Heat (1949) portrays the sense of emotion illustrated through visuals. Some

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