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Tag: horror

Film and TV

What is post-horror? A Q&A with David Church, author of Post-Horror: Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation

posted by Helena Heald October 29, 20217 min read300 Views

In this interview, David Church discusses Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation, exploring the meaning of post-horror, its recent popularity…

Screenshot from Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020)
Cultural Studies

10 Beats of The Pulse in Cinema

posted by Helena Heald March 17, 20217 min read94 Views

By Sharon Jane Mee and Bill Hunt [Content Note: This post contains shots from films depicting blood and gore] One…

Film still of a couple hugging from Atlantics (Mati Diop, 2019)
Cultural Studies

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

posted by Helena Heald November 25, 20207 min read340 Views

by Patricia Pisters Watching horror movies Previously, I truly disliked horror films. In the late 1980s Brian de Palma’s Carrie…

The Stick
Cultural History

Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesied Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere

posted by Emma at EUP April 29, 20199 min read913 Views

By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…

Cultural History

A history of American horror film in 10 images

posted by Emma at EUP October 31, 20181 min read1203 Views

In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus…

The Style of Sleaze
Film and TV

Exploitation-horror? Halloween Stabbed it from the Theatres…

posted by Emma at EUP August 8, 20189 min read1291 Views

By Calum Waddell With the recent release of the trailer for the upcoming Halloween reboot, Michael Myers and his perennial…

Black Lives Matter by Gerry Lauzon (CC BY 2.0)
Film and TV

Waking up from horror: shame and fugitive movements

posted by Naomi Farmer June 1, 20179 min read2287 Views

‘A future politics is given there so powerfully that it’s present as a trace even in certain reactions that, in…

Cultural Studies

Brain Candy – My Top 6 Best First Person Zombie Narratives

posted by Emma at EUP October 28, 20169 min read4698 Views

By Stacey Abbott As the evenings draw in and the temperature drops, my mind turns toward the ghostly, the ghoulish…

Cultural Studies

Five Unmissable Performances from Penny Dreadful

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals March 14, 20166 min read3080 Views

By Benjamin Poore For the uninitiated, Penny Dreadful is a genre-busting neo-Victorian fantasy horror show, set in the 1890s, in…

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