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/
List of must-see films for the True Crime section of my taxonomy of horror sub-genres.
The last podcast in this series covers the various iterations of gendered tropes in the MTV series Scream and how gender and violence intersect in metafictional horror.
Continue reading “Episode 6: Scream and the Meta Final Girl”
Discussion of horror film history, in this post looking specifically at the slasher sub-genre, sexuality, and the 1980s.
Continue reading “Why Monsters? Displaced Queerness and the 1980s Slasher”
Discussion of the beginnings of horror film history, in this post looking specifically at feminist/queer history and Hammer Horror.
Continue reading “Why Monsters? Reaction, Regression, and 1970s Jekyll/Hyde”
Discussion of the beginnings of horror film history, in this post looking specifically at Dracula, queer history, and the 1960s.
Continue reading “Why Monsters? Queering Dracula in the 1960s”
Discussion of the beginnings of horror film history, starting with Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s. This post specifically looks at the significance and meaning of adapting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s Monster to film in the 50s.
Continue reading “Why Monsters? Hammer, Frankenstein, and the 1950s”
The final installment for this blog series wraps up my discussion of Portrait of a Zombie and covers zombies, gender, and hermeneutical phenomenology.
Continue reading “Where Ireland, Decolonialism, and Weird Fiction Meet (Pt. 5)”
This installment covers haunting as a contagion and begins my discussion of Bing Bailey’s 2012 film Portrait of a Zombie.
Continue reading “Where Ireland, Decolonialism, and Weird Fiction Meet (Pt. 4)”
