#projectmuse — Public Fediverse posts

Studies in the Fantastic is dedicated to spooky TV w/a retrospective on THE X-FILES and its best "monsters of the week" + essays on THE LAST OF US and demon realism. Read #ProjectMuse From @jordanscarroll and friends. #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53292

That Chucky is just a Midwestern guy at heart, don'cha know? Alice Tremea's new essay looks at CHILD'S PLAY (1988 & 2019) and how the city of Chicago is depicted as the host of doll rampage. #ProjectMuse #MiddleWestReview #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/937638

Dale Pattison proposes that "It" follows suburban Detroit, dragging its racist-economic history with it. "Neoliberal Horror: It Follows & the Time of Urban Progress" is new from J Narrative Theory #ProjectMuse. #horror #academia
https://doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2024.a937162

Let's check up north, shall we? Canadian Review of American Studies has essays from Brent Yergensen chasing the elusive evil of the serial killer all the way to Edvard Munch's "The Scream" & Carlen Lavigne on the feminine horror in STRANGER THINGS. #ProjectMuse #horror #academia
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53158

"Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes." Sebastian Croft dives deep into history and Quint's famous monologue in a new essay, "Bomb Voyage: The USS Indianapolis disaster in American Cinema, National Memory & Jaws." From Film & History #ProjectMuse #horror #academia
https://doi.org/10.1353/flm.2024.a933221

GoPro, meet your grandpa: the body-mounted camera. Cooper Long explains the cinematic tech used in John Frankenheimer's surgical sci-fi thriller SECONDS (1966) & later films like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. In the latest Film History, just landed on #ProjectMuse. #horror #academia
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/929776

"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels." The latest JCMS has essays from Emily Naser-Hall on womens' bodily autonomy in law, THE BIRDS, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD + Jerome Dent on GET OUT, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. #ProjectMuse #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52546

All together now: "JAAAAAAMES!" If you're down with the "new weirdness" of Brandon Cronenberg's INFINITY POOL, check out M. Keith Booker & Isra Daraiseh's new essay for Science Fiction Film & TV about global capitalism & clone dystopias. #ProjectMuse #horror
https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2024.3

It's a blood red-letter day when someone writes about THE BROOD (1979). Sarah Manley's new piece for J Lit & Cultural Disability Studies explores Nola's trauma, her rage-babies, and the "eugenic gaze" in Cronenberg's film. Available at #ProjectMuse #horror #davidcronenberg
https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2023.43

Poems by #TerranceHayes and #ClaudiaRankine on CLMP’s #BlackHistoryMonth reading list. Both Hayes and Rankine’s work is free to read and download all month on #ProjectMUSE.

https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-black-history-month-2024/

"Mr. Roat, are you looking at me?" David Cosper hears the musical accompaniment to blind terror in a new essay in Music Sound & the Moving Image, "Through Susy’s Eyes: Sight, Sound, & Subjectivity in Mancini’s Wait Until Dark." #ProjectMuse / Liverpool UP #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/article/916829

Emma Hamilton & Alistair Rolls give us a blood-tinged vanilla-twist of essays on ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1974), one on its intertextuality & the other on its reflection of American social order. Read them #ProjectMuse via J Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45165

In horror films like DARK WATER & IT FOLLOWS, "Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools" are water infrastructures bound to women. Read Johanna Isaacson's Marxist-feminist take on the subject in the journal symplokē via #ProjectMuse. #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/914652

Maybe it's not *technically* an Xmas movie, but there is a Christ figure, a miraculous birth & a fairy tale ethos. Read Michèle Bacholle's new essay "In the Defense of Punks and Monsters: Julia Ducournau & Titane" in The French Review via #ProjectMuse.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/914212

"You start to change when I get in!" THE BABADOOK is often interpreted in terms of grief, but Paul Mitchell sees the shadow of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Amelia's plight. Read his new essay in the journal Literature & Medicine via #ProjectMuse. #horror
https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911447

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
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/16/3

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
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/article/907666

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
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-issue

Shhhh...hhhhaaaaahh...Wesley Lim listens to Susie Bannion sigh her way thru the German Autumn of 1977 in Luca Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA, in a new essay in Dance Research Journal, access via #ProjectMuse. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/122/article/903087