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 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”
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.