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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Classic horror influences on The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, and Hannibal.
Continue reading “Catching Up: TV Horror Meets Cinematic Horror”
In this podcast I talk about the importance of oral communication to the history of Irish de/colonialism. I’m analyzing Eimear McBride’s novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, the TV programs The Late Late Show and Give My Head Peace, and the movies The Wind that Shakes the Barley and The Magdalene Sisters.
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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.
On late ’90s and early ’00s TV horror and centuries-old traditions of superstitions regarding murder.
Continue reading “Murder Will Out: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Teenage Cynicism”
A brief explanation of what neoliberalism is, how it developed, and its influence on television horror in the 1980s and 90s.
Continue reading “Neoliberalism Ate My Democracy, Or 1980s and 90s Cult TV”
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”
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”
