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”
This stand-alone episode looks at Mike Flanagan’s 2016 film Hush. Hush is a horror film about Maddie, a young writer who is deaf and mute and who has recently moved to a secluded cabin in the woods. The film details one harrowing night when a serial killer arrives at her home.
Content Notice: This podcast contains discussions of rape, gendered violence, graphic depictions of injury and physical/mental harm, ableism, and imprisonment, as well as audio clips from the film that some listeners may find disturbing.
This podcast was originally published on The Coachella Review’s blog which can be found here: http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/2017/03/24/sonic-horror-geographies-hush-gender-and-disability/
Continue reading “Sonic Horror Geographies: Hush (2016), Gender, and Disability”
Continue reading “WORMS!: Parasites, Disease, and the Threat of What We Can’t See”
Who To Listen to, and Why
For those who don’t know, NPR, in combination with a handful of podcast hosts and publishers, has recently launched #trypod in order to help expand podcast audiences and bring awareness to less-known podcasts. The idea is to share a podcast that you enjoy with a friend, family member, co-worker, etc., tell them why you listen to it, and perhaps most importantly how to listen. For podcasts with a lengthy backlog of episodes, jumping in can be daunting and it’s not always possible to know whether you can start in the middle, and if so where to start. On the podcast host’s end, this means not only reaching out to family and friends, but telling listeners about what we’re listening to and why.
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”
Penny Dreadful, having premiered at South by Southwest and airing on Showtime, is a “quality TV” version of episodic horror.
Continue reading “Episode 5: Ms. Ives, The New Old Final Girl”
Darknet is an adaptation of the Japanese series Torihada (2010-present), and exists as something between a web series, an interactive TV anthology, and a Canadian network series.
After a much-longer-than-expected hiatus, here’s the third podcast in the Everything is Liminal series! It covers The Cold War, gender, haunting, and radical political potentiality in The Shining.
This second podcast delves into the post-apocalytic imaginary, the politics of settler colonialism, and the agentive power of vocalization.
