Another great night @thehorsehospital.bsky.social for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social talk on anguish and horror in low budget films set in the desert by scholar and author Ken Hollings and hosted by our emcee @joshsaco.bsky.social
#desert #horrorcinema #horroracademia
Horror Gaming Academics Assemble!
I am delighted to share the CFP for the inaugural Falmouth Horror and Gaming Conference.
Abstracts of 300 words to: falmouthhorrorandgaming@gmail.com
Deadline 1/4/26
Any questions:
falmouthhorrorandgaming@gmail.com
I hope to see you there!
#HorrorAcademia
An insightful online talk by @miskatonicihs.bsky.social the reasons why mourning in horror cinema may have risen in the last two decades.
Many thanks to lecturer @tugcekutlu.bsky.social for this wonderful talk.
#horrorcinema #horrortrauma #griefinhorror #horroracademia
Y más allá de eso, tengo sin empezar pero con ganas de escribir:
#ProyectoLouvre --> Relato retelling
#HorrorAcademia --> Antología de relatos de terror, aunque ya tengo algunos relatos.
#LlueveMurcia --> spinoff de Arde,Madrid
#ProyectoMuerte --> Romantasy
Copy of Robert Stam's "Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film" next to a copy of the trade paperback edition of "Vinegar Teeth"
Fellow #Comics and #HorrorStudies peers - I invite yall to read a short essay I wrote a while back called "Cullzathro Fhtagn! Magnifying the Carnivalesque in #Lovecraft through the Comic Book Series Vinegar Teeth":
www.academia.edu/48014744/Cul...
#HorrorAcademia #ComicBook #MikhailBakhtin
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Get In and Get Out: White Racial Transformation and the US Gothic Imagination."
On the right, a still from the 2017 film GET OUT in which a young Black man stands close to and speaks to a middle-aged White woman.
Hannah Lauren Murray writes about GET OUT (2017) & Robert M. Bird’s Sheppard Lee (1836) in which Black bodies unwillingly "bolster Whiteness" by helping escaping it. "Get In and Get Out..." is #OpenAccess in Humanities from MDPI. #horror #horrorfilms #horroracademia
doi.org/10.3390/h120...
The cover of the new 2nd edition of "The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis," with a surrealist drawing of a pair of red lips tethered to a pole in a barren landscape.
Horror fans, grab your smelling salts. Barbara Creed's seminal book "The Monstrous Feminine" is out in a 2nd Edition & now in multiple formats. Expanded w/Creed's thoughts on post-2000 films such as GINGER SNAPS, ATLANTICS, BORDER & TITANE. #horror #horroracademia
www.routledge.com/The-Monstrou...
On the left, the cover of the book “Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion,” showing a set of gothic, arched windows and purple light streaming in. On the right, the cover for “Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence,” mostly black with a colorful, abstract globe design in the lower portion.
Two more new books to cure your candy hangover: "Queer Gothic," tackling everything from wolf-boyz on TV to AIDS art & "Transgressive Art Films," a look at today's extremes in sex and violence on screen. From Edinburgh UP. #horror #horroracademia
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A screen shot of Gary Rhodes' essay, "Lost, but Not Dead: London After Midnight," with a still from the film showing Lon Chaney Sr. in frightening makeup with sharp, shark-like teeth.
Tod Browning's LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT is "Lost, but Not Dead." Gary D. Rhodes walks thru the history of the film's reception in the 1920s and its many reanimations, both legit and fraudulent. #openaccess in Film International. #horror #horrorfilms #horroracademia
filmint.nu/london-after...
On the left, a screen shot of the index for Cinej's Fall 2023 issue. On the right, a still from the film THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, in which a young boy with blood coming out of his eyes is restrained with duct tape over his mouth and around his torso and arms.
CINEJ journal is all new and #openaccess with thoughts on THE HANDMAIDEN and visual pleasure, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER as myth adaptation, & the female gaze of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. #horror #horroracademia
cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/is...
On the left, the cover of Movie journal issue 11, showing a still from the 2021 film CANDYMAN, in which we see the back of the main character as he walks into a neighborhood of low-rise apartments. On the right, a still from the film AUDITION, showing main character Asami as she prepares to inject her victim with a clear substance in a hypodermic needle.
Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is building Issue #11 with Milo Farragher-Hanks on power shifts in AUDITION and MIDSOMMAR + an audiovisual essay from John Gibbs on the geography of CANDYMAN (1992/2021). #OpenAccess #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
On the left, the front page of the article "Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in film scoring of Pengabdi Setan film." On the right, a film still from SATAN'S SLAVES by Joko Anwar, showing a ghostly Asian female in white makeup with black lips and eyes, white shroud-like clothing, holding the ropes of a swing.
Can you hear Mother's bell ringing? Indonesian researchers have analyzed diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in Joko Anwar's 2017 unnerving remake of SATAN'S SLAVES to find out what we hear and how it makes us feel. #OpenAccess from ProTVF Journal. #horror #horroracademia
doi.org/10.24198/ptv...
On the left, the cover of the book "Contemporary Horror on Screen: An Evolving Visual Narrative," plain text on a red-orange swirled background. On the right, a still from the film IT (2017) showing Bill Skarsgaard as Pennywise the clown, holding a red balloon and leering at someone.
A stealth-publishing we almost missed: "Contemporary Horror on Screen" puts the grim 2010s in perspective with dark pop culture like IT, HEREDITARY, PULSE, MOTHER!, READY OR NOT. From Springer. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
On the left, the book cover for "Unusual Shapes, Fantasy & Horror," with the title in white letters on a dark green and black background forming the shape of a human torso as if made of gnarled vines or circuitry. On the right, a poster for the 2021 Paco Plaza film LA ABUELA showing an old woman, naked, from the shoulders up, appearing to vibrate back and forth so that she appears like more than one person.
Surprise free book! With essays on horror, bodies, space & tactility in LA ABUELA, GET OUT, William Castle gimmicks, videogame cinema & more. "Unusual Shapes, Fantasy & Horror" is #OpenAccess from Universidad de Salamanca, #horror #horroracademia
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