For those of you who’ve followed my podcast for a while, you may already be aware that I’m heading into my second year of a PhD program at the University of Pittsburgh in Film Studies and English, so I’ve had next-to-no time to put new content out here.
This spoiler-heavy podcast is an interview with content editor Kat Kiefer-Newman about all things Campbell, the underworld, and Roxanne Benjamin’s Body at Brighton Rock!
Her dissertation (Agent of change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades [1990s and early 2000s to 2010] of Postmodern American Movies) can be found here: https://search.proquest.com/openview/337a8b118be1b97b4ee1874edea0a827/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
In this episode I discuss queerness, political potential, and iterations of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu’s Carmilla.
Image Credit: U by Kotex © 2014
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This stand-alone podcast covers stardom, fandom, and horror film reboots.
Image Credit: Dimension Films and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer © 2006
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Continue reading “Fandom and the Resurrection of Fear in Millennial Horror”
This is the third installment in my Art House Horror series. In this episode I discuss the New French Extremity, abjection, and camp. I look at Trouble Every Day and In My Skin as examples that embrace complex, messy approaches to identity and personhood.
CW: Gore, Rape, Self Harm, Cannibalism
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On giallo horror: Giallo Film List; Sex, Death, and Paperbacks: The History of Giallo Cinema
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Nota, 2017.
Sontag, Susan. Notes on Camp. Penguin Books, 2018.
Author: Genevieve Newman
Image Credit: Canal+ © 2002
This is a standalone/follow-up podcast to my last episode on American slasher films. In this episode I discuss early slashers from the 1970s, the Final Girl trope, and complex personhood. I look at The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Carrie as prototypical films that define and develop the trope which has become a major feature of the horror genre.
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Arvin, Maile Renee. Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race. Dissertation, UC San Diego: b7759918.
Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print.
Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1997. Print
“Go Cart – Drop Mix” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In this second podcast in the art house horror series discusses the birth of the slasher movie! In this episode, I’m talking about films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. I also go into how Laura Mulvey, Sigmund Freud, and heteropatriarchy are interconnected in horror.
Continue reading “It’s Always Mom’s Fault: American Slashers in the 1970s and ‘80s”
Just not feeling “yourself” today? Here are 5 films you might find relatable.
Continue reading “You Need An Old Priest And A Young Priest: 5 Possession Horror Movies”
If you’ve ever wondered whether those noises were *really* old pipes, these movies might be for you.
Continue reading “HGTV Never Mentioned This: 4 Films About Haunted Places”
