This stand-alone podcast covers stardom, fandom, and horror film reboots.
Image Credit: Dimension Films and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer © 2006
Episode Notes:
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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Show Notes:
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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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”
To wrap up my series on TV horror, I’m talking about surveillance in both abstract and concrete terms.
Continue reading “The Surveillance State Just Won’t Quit: Control, Time, and Horror TV 2014-Present”
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/
Five films to help you jump into the haunted object sub-genre.
Continue reading “Horror Things: 5 Movies about Cursed, Possessed, and Haunted Objects”
Classic horror influences on The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, and Hannibal.
Continue reading “Catching Up: TV Horror Meets Cinematic Horror”
Five films that define and develop the “Haunted Memes” horror sub-genre.
This blog continues my series on the history and development of TV horror. I’m taking an industrial, thematic, and fan theory approach to analyzing True Blood and Supernatural.
