#horroracademia — Public Fediverse posts
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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 #horrormovies #horroracademia
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You like blood and guts, you sicko?!? No worries, Marius A. Pascale is here to redeem you. Read his new essay "Horror cinema and sadistic spectacle: A further defense of gorefests." Cogent Arts & Humanities #OpenAccess #horror #horroracademia
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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 #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
https://www.routledge.com/The-Monstrous-Feminine-Film-Feminism-Psychoanalysis/Creed/p/book/9780367209452 -
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 #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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🧛Fangs for frosh🧛 "Queering the Vampire Narrative" is new from Brill w/classroom-ready essays on gender, family & identity in VAMP, BUFFY, THE HUNGER, TWILIGHT, Anne Rice + more. Eds Amanda Hobson & U. Melissa Anyiwo. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #vampires
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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 #horrormovies #horroracademia
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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. Authors Javier Zapata Claveria, Poya Raissi, Morteza Ghaffari, Emily Moeck. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Studies in the Fantastic is dressed up for Halloween! The new issue has essays on haptics in the ANNABELLE trilogy, patriarchy in THE WITCH & THE LOVE WITCH, plus reviews of Gen Z critique BODIES BODIES BODIES & Lenzi's BLACK DEMONS. Access via @ProjectMuse. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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The new Science Fiction Film & Television issue has essays on the kaiju-human connection in SHIN GODZILLA (2016) and the feminist liberation, or lack thereof, in MEDUSA (2020). Timothy S. Murphy, Phillip Zapkin, access via #ProjectMuse. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #kaiju #godzilla
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"For us to have our privilege someone suffers." Jonathan D. Lyonhart looks at what Jordan Peele has to say about a higher power & our moral duties to each other in US, NOPE, & GET OUT. #openaccess from Journal of Religion & Film. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #jordanpeele
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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
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Who's that lurking around the edges? "Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema" is new from Steven Rybin and Rutgers UP w/a chapter on John Carpenter's (and Dean Cundy's) Panavision-vision in HALLOWEEN, THE THING, and other big screen horrors. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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"All bodies are sound bodies." "Listening Deafly & the Rhetoric of Sound" tackles Deaf culture as it relates to the world of voice, silence, and noise via discussion of three films, incl. A QUIET PLACE (2018). By Sarah Mayberry Scott, now out from Lexington Books. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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The blog awakens! Today we celebrate @internetarchive & its importance to researchers. Did you know there are 37 books of nonfiction, horror-film goodness that can be downloaded, not just borrowed, from the IA? We give you the links, go get ‘em! #horror #horroracademia
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If you've seen THE PERFECTION (2018), "dehumanization" is definitely a word that comes to mind. @fermion91 exposes the monstrousness of classical music in that film as well as NOCTURNE (2020) in a new #OpenAccess piece in journal El oído pensante. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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A famous Jewish play, and a "harbinger of exile and oblivion." "The Dybbuk Century" is #OpenAccess from U Michigan Press w/a chapter from J Hoberman on dybbuk horror-drama films from THE VOW (1924) to DEMON (2015). Eds. Debra Caplan & Rachel Merrill Moss. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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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 #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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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
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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 #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Two new tomes about eerie landscapes & buried things that should stay buried: "The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror" eds Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson from Routledge & "Folk Horror on Film" eds Kevin Donnelly and Louis Bayman from Manchester University Press. #horror #folkhorror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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For a discussion of giant apes, giant humans, and centuries of questions about what it means to be a person, check out "The Kaiju Connection: Monsters and Ourselves" by Jason Barr, now out from McFarland Books. #kaiju #godilla #kingkong #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Bloodsuckers, cannibals, necromantics: are they evil, sick, or just misunderstood? Pick up Brian Sharpless's book "Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies," new from Chicago Review Press. #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Che shock! Che shifo! Italian film historian Roberto Curti tells the tale of cinematic sex and violence too lurid even for il bel paese in a new Mcfarland release, "Proibito! A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021." #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #italy #italianfilm
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Che shock! Che shifo! Italian film historian Roberto Curti tells the tale of cinematic sex and violence too lurid even for il bel paese in a new Mcfarland release, "Proibito! A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021." #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #italy #italianfilm
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Che shock! Che shifo! Italian film historian Roberto Curti tells the tale of cinematic sex and violence too lurid even for il bel paese in a new Mcfarland release, "Proibito! A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021." #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia #italy #italianfilm
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Awwooo, the pack has a new member! The latest title from DieDieBooks is "The Wolf Man" by Philip J Reed (who, sadly, we lost last year), a deep dive into the classic film and troubled life of Lon Chaney Jr. Just $15 paper, $5 ebook from this new press. #horror #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia #werewolves
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That fin rising up thru the water is "The Deep," new from Simon Bacon, Marko Teodorski + friends. Incl. essays on CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, THE MEG, ÉVOLUTION, THE LURE, POSSESSION, CRAWL & UNDERWATER. From Peter Lang Books. #horror #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Halloween month means a new Horror Studies (an Intellect journal)! #14.2 is all folk horror courtesy of eds. Jeffrey Tolbert & Dawn Keetley and contributors. Read about The Headless Horseman, MIDSOMMAR, SUSPIRIA, inhuman voices & THE MEDIUM as Thai folk horror. #horror #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Tis the season! Supernatural Studies journal is so very spooOOOoooky in its new issue, with essays on dark literature, Lovecraftian sex monsters in THE SHAPE OF WATER (2018), and the history of spookiness itself. #OpenAccess! #horrorfilm #horroracademia #spookyseason #halloween
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For those who understand Deleuzean theory *and* like a good dance-horror, check out John W. Roberts' new essay in Discourse Journal, "Dancing the Dance of Another: Allegory, the Diagram, and Suspiria (2018)." Access via #ProjectMUSE. #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia #darioargento
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The first book focusing on silent-film vampires is out, and David Annwn Jones has it. "Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema’s First Age of Vampires 1897-1922" is new from Palgrave Macmillan. Aca-priced, so let your librarian know--she misses you! #horror #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia #vampires
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JCMS continues to build its latest #OpenAccess issue, now incl. Sami Atassi's essay on the legacy of minstrelsy in selected literature and Jordan Peele's GET OUT (2018). Access at JCMS link below or #ProjectMuse. #horror #horrorfilm #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Congrats to Calum Waddell and his contributors on "ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven," new from #EdinburghUP. Essays from folk horror in THE HILLS HAVE EYES to Reaganism in THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS to his final slasher in SCREAM 4. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #wescraven #horroracademia
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Monster alert, new Gothic Studies issue! You get Amy Bride on the octopus monster of capitalism in NOPE (2002) Máiréad Casey on sex, boy-eating, & girl-bashing in JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), w/a lovely elegy for Justin D. Edwards. #IGAGoths #EdinburghUP #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Monster alert, new Gothic Studies issue! You get Amy Bride on the octopus monster of capitalism in NOPE (2002) Máiréad Casey on sex, boy-eating, & girl-bashing in JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), w/a lovely elegy for Justin D. Edwards. #IGAGoths #EdinburghUP #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Monster alert, new Gothic Studies issue! You get Amy Bride on the octopus monster of capitalism in NOPE (2002) Máiréad Casey on sex, boy-eating, & girl-bashing in JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), w/a lovely elegy for Justin D. Edwards. #IGAGoths #EdinburghUP #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Monster alert, new Gothic Studies issue! You get Amy Bride on the octopus monster of capitalism in NOPE (2002) Máiréad Casey on sex, boy-eating, & girl-bashing in JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), w/a lovely elegy for Justin D. Edwards. #IGAGoths #EdinburghUP #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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Monster alert, new Gothic Studies issue! You get Amy Bride on the octopus monster of capitalism in NOPE (2002) Máiréad Casey on sex, boy-eating, & girl-bashing in JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), w/a lovely elegy for Justin D. Edwards. #IGAGoths #EdinburghUP #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #horroracademia
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The newest Black Camera journal is all about horror noir: CANDYMAN, GET OUT, and Black bodies under attack. Access via Project MUSE @IUPress. See comment below for some #openaccess links! #horror #horrorfilms #horrormovies #blackhorror #horroracademia
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