A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Horror scholar Andy Owens explores the genre’s complex relationship to gender, and delves into two recent films that are tackling toxic masculinity head-on.
Read moreHannah Wold traces some of the ways in which the horror text Scream: The TV Series received reviews that precluded it from the distinction granted to the Scream film franchise, indicating that its intended audience and the MTV brand ensured that it was left behind in discourses of quality.
Read moreUsing Mexican director Guillermo del Toro as a case study, Orquidea Morales discusses how his films are shaped by transnationalism and consequently exemplify the contested nature of the genre of Latinx Horror.
Read moreCaroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.
Read moreCáel Keegan revisits Sleepaway Camp in his final installment of “In Praise of the Bad Transgender Object” to reveal its sympathetic trans masculine subtext.
Read morePhil Oppenheim further analyzes Lucifer’s Women and its cultishness, bringing in real-life events such as the Manson Family trial and
Garrett Castleberry compares the Gothic horror tropes deployed by Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with Hammer Horror films by performing a discursive visual analysis of the two sets of texts.
Read moreby: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.