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:
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:
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.
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”