The first installment in a series looking at the development of the horror genre on TV.
Continue reading “Horror TV History: Censorship, Anxiety, and the Cold War”
Discussion of the beginnings of horror film history, in this post looking specifically at gender, race, bugs, and the 1990s.
Continue reading “Why Monsters? Bugs and the 1990s’ Domestication of Horror”
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.
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)”
This installment discusses gender identity, Irish folklore, and formal experimentation in The Drowning Girl.
Continue reading “Where Ireland, Decolonialism, and Weird Fiction Meet (Pt. 3)”
This second podcast delves into the post-apocalytic imaginary, the politics of settler colonialism, and the agentive power of vocalization.
This installment delves into the intersections of gender and sexuality in The Drowning Girl. Further this installment analyses where gender and sexuality intersect with mental illness and haunting in The Drowning Girl.
Continue reading “Where Ireland, Decolonialism, and Weird Fiction Meet (Pt. 2)”
