Category Archives: horror studies

Horror Homeroom, “Midsommar” and Academic Research

There is a great article at the Horror Homeroom website titled “YOU’RE PISSING ON MY PEOPLE: MIDSOMMAR AND THE REVENGE OF THE RESEARCH SUBJECT” by Emily Naser-Hall. Here’s a sample in the form of the conclusion: “The cult to be dismantled, then, is not Hårga or even the more stereotypically brutal communities from Cannibal Holocaust and Eli […]

Recommended Reading on World War I, Horror and the Supernatural

I’ve read and watched a lot on World War II over the years, since I was a child actually, watching films with my dad growing up. World War I is another story. I’ve only recently have I taken a closer look at the Great War in more depth. In addition to recommending a viewing of […]

Two items on horror and psychology

A couple of items have appeared over the last week or two that are worth noting in regards to horror and psychology. The first is “An Infectious Curiosity: Morbid Curiosity and Media Preferences During a Pandemic” published in Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. This article was picked up by a lot of popular media outlets, […]

Interview with Mathias Clasen on a Biocultural Approach to the Appeal of Horror

A few years ago I broadened the academic lenses through which I study religion. This involved a biocultural approach which includes disciplines like social psychology, the cognitive science of religion, and evolutionary psychology. Since an important emphasis of this blog is to look at the intersection of religion, genre, and pop culture, I was pleased […]

“Ultraviolet’s” Vampires and the ‘War on Terror’

The current edition of Gothic Studies is available, Volume 15, No. 1 (May 2013), published by Manchester University Press. It focuses on vampires and the undead in popular culture, and several essays caught my eye for download in PDF for later reading. I recently finished reading the first of them, and it is David McWilliam’s […]

Call for Papers: Special issue of Horror Studies

Call for Papers: Special issue of Horror Studies “Paranormal TV” Helen Wheatley, in Gothic Television, argues that beginning in the early 1990s, gothic texts became particularly visible in television; like the gothic, paranormal-themed television became especially prevalent beginning in the 1990s and, again like the gothic, paranormal television has cut across genres, with particular visibility […]

Millennials Don’t Like ‘old movies’: Dire Implications for Classic Fantastic Film?

A piece in this weekend’s Los Angeles Times website holds dire implications for classic fantastic films. It is titled “Perspective: Millennials seem to have little use for old movies” by Neal Gabler. The point of departure for Gabler’s essay is the release of the new Spider-Man film, just a decade after the release of the […]

University of Derby: MA Humanities in Horror and Transgression

I learned about this degree program today so I thought I’d copy it here to give it a plug. From the University of Derby School of Humanities, an MA in Horror and Transgression: Why choose this course? * It combines taught and individual research modules to allow you to focus on your own research project, […]

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