Call for Papers – The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture
Call for Proposals: The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture Editors: Carl Sederholm (csederholm@byu.edu) and Jeffrey Weinstock (Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu) 250 word proposals are sought for chapter contributions to an edited scholarly collection on H. P. Lovecraft and his place in 21st century literature, film, media, and popular culture. This collection will consider the […]
Projected Fears: The Thing From Another World as Gothic Horror
I am currently reading and enjoying Kendall R. Phillips’ book Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture (Praeger, 2005). The book is similar to David Skal’s The Monster Show in that it connects horror films to their context in American culture. Phillips’ book is a little different in that it selects certain films which the […]
Call for Papers: Horror (as/is) Humor, Humor (as/is) Horror: sLaughter in Popular Cinema (collection)
CFP: Horror (as/is) Humor, Humor (as/is) Horror: sLaughter in Popular Cinema (collection) Johnson Cheu (cheu@msu.edu) and John Dowell (jdowell@msu.edu), eds. Deadline: 15 September 2012 In his review of Tavernier’s Coup de torchon, David Kehr wrote in When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade, Death, violence, and moral corruption aren’t just slapstick props … but […]
Midnight Son: Indie Vampire Horror Film on DVD and Digital
A while back I came across an independent horror film, Midnight Son. I was intrigued by the different take on the vampire story, and that certain aspects of it reminded me of George Romero’s “vampire” film Martin from the 1970s. Today I received an update from the makers of the film letting me know that […]
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 […]
Kevin Wetmore Interview: Post-9/11 Horror
Kevin Wetmore returns to TheoFantastique to discuss his new book Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema (Continuum, 2012). Wetmore is an associate professor of theatre at Loyola Marymount University, the author and/or editor of ten books including The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films, and a contributor to numerous volumes on […]
Transcultural Undeadness: Histories and Incarnations of Multiethnic Hauntings and Horror
TRANSCULTURAL UNDEADNESS: HISTORIES AND INCARNATIONS OF MULTIETHNIC HAUNTINGS AND HORROR The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Unites States (MELUS) contact email: eandersd@gmu.edu, bussecj@mcmaster.ca MELUS 2013 March 14-17, 2013 Downtown Pittsburgh Deadline: October 20, 2012 Panel co-organizers: Eric Gary Anderson and Cassel Busse. One point of departure for this session is […]
The Cabin in the Woods: Appreciation of the Monstrous and the Mythos of the Old Ones
Joss Whedon’s latest film, The Cabin in the Woods, has been out in theaters long enough now for a significant amount of reviews and commentary to be published on it. With few exceptions, the reviews have been positive, if not glowing. In this post I will supplement some of the commentary previously offered, and present […]
Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife
Some recent research turned up a book title that I found helpful, Ghost Images: Cinema of the Afterlife by Tom Ruffles (McFarland, 2004). The back cover of the book describes Ruffles as a teacher in communication skills and film studies in the United Kingdom, but the promotional materials from the publisher indicate another interesting facet […]
Hellraiser and Popular Esotericism
The Academic Study of Magic list recently included a fascinating scholarly paper abstract that dovetails with the interests of TheoFantastique. Leon Marvell of Deakin University will be presenting at the International Conference on Esotericism, Culture and Religion at UC Davis with a paper titled “Under the Sign of Baphomet: Hellraiser and Popular Esotericism.” Here is […]
