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Tag: Horror

Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope
Sophia Abbey/ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

August 3, 2023 Sophia Abbey-Kuipers / University of Texas at Austin Leave a comment

A reflection on where surveillance and spectacle intersect with blackness in Jordan Peele’s Nope.

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BREAKING THE HABIT: CONTEMPORARY HORROR & TOXIC MASCULINITY
ANDREW J. OWENS, PHD / UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

November 7, 2022 Andy Owens / Iowa Leave a comment

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.

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Left Behind: Discourses of Legitimation and MTV’s Scream: The TV Series
Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin

August 3, 2022 Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin Leave a comment

Hannah 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.

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Guillermo del Toro: From Mexico to the World
Orquidea Morales / State University of New York, Old Westbury

April 5, 2021 Orquidea Morales / State University of New York, Old Westbury Leave a comment

Using 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.

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Women Horror Hosts in the Southern United States, 1957-1960
Caroline N. Bayne / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

February 1, 2021 Caroline N. Bayne / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 3 comments

Caroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.

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Over*Flow, Special Episode: In Praise of the Bad Transgender Object: Sleepaway Camp
Cáel M. Keegan / Grand Valley State University

July 18, 2020 Cáel M. Keegan / Grand Valley State University 18 comments

Cáel Keegan revisits Sleepaway Camp in his final installment of “In Praise of the Bad Transgender Object” to reveal its sympathetic trans masculine subtext.

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Lucifer’s Women and Doctor Dracula: Conjuring a Cult-Cult Canon, Pt. 2
Phil Oppenheim / Oppanopticom / EPIX / Brown Sugar SVOD

February 22, 2019 Phil Oppenheim / Oppanopticom / EPIX / Brown Sugar, SVOD One comment

Phil Oppenheim further analyzes Lucifer’s Women and its cultishness, bringing in real-life events such as the Manson Family trial and to historically and narratively position the film.

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The Visual Discourse between Hammer Horror and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
Garret Castleberry / Oklahoma City University

January 25, 2016 Garret Castleberry / Oklahoma City University 3 comments

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.

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Lessons from the Undead: How Film and TV Zombies Teach Us About War

January 26, 2006 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 5 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.

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