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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In this episode I discuss queerness, political potential, and iterations of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu’s Carmilla.
Image Credit: U by Kotex © 2014
Show Notes:
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 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”
In this stand-alone podcast I talk about the complicated politics of representation and sexuality in MTV’s Scream.
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My other podcast on Scream can be found here: https://openivorytower.org/2016/12/22/episode-6-scream-and-the-meta-final-girl/
This podcast kicks off the newest series on art house horror! In this episode, I’m talking about the history of giallo cinema and analyzing Sergio Martino’s 1972 film, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key.
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Continue reading “Sex, Death, and Paperbacks: The History of Giallo Cinema”
Continue reading “WORMS!: Parasites, Disease, and the Threat of What We Can’t See”