Open Ivory Tower Podcast

This spoiler-heavy podcast is an interview with content editor Kat Kiefer-Newman about all things Campbell, the underworld, and Roxanne Benjamin's Body at Brighton Rock! Her dissertation (Agent of change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades [1990s and early 2000s to 2010] of Postmodern American Movies) can be found here: https://search.proquest.com/openview/337a8b118be1b97b4ee1874edea0a827/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

In this episode I discuss queerness, political potential, and iterations of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu's Carmilla. Show Notes: The Carmilla web series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QzRfvkJZ4 The Carmilla Movie: https://carmillamovie.vhx.tv/ Case, Sue-Ellen. “Tracking the Vampire,” 66–85, 2009. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws. Princeton University Press, 1992. Doty, Alexander. “There’s Something Queer Here.” In Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Duggan, Lisa. “The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism.” In Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, edited by Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson. Duke University Press, 2002. Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2004.

This stand-alone podcast covers stardom, fandom, and horror film reboots. Episode Notes: Heffernan, Kevin. “Risen from the Vaults: Recent Horror Film Remakes and the American Film Industry.” In Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema, edited by Richard Nowell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Jowett, Lorna, and Stacey Abbott. TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen. I. B. Tauris, 2013. Kiefer-Newman, Katherine. “Agent of Change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades (1990S and early 2000S to 2010) of Postmodern American Movies,” n.d. Landay, Lori Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Larsen, Karen, and Lynn Zubernis. Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships. Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2011. Smith, Justin. “Vincent Price and Cult Performance: The Case of Witchfinder General.” In Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification, edited by Kate Egan and Sarah Thomas. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. Williams, Linda. “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess.” In Film Genre Reader III, edited by Barry Keith Grant. University of Texas Press, 2003.

This is the third installment in my Art House Horror series. In this episode I discuss the New French Extremity, abjection, and camp. I look at Trouble Every Day and In My Skin as examples that embrace complex, messy approaches to identity and personhood. CW: Gore, Rape, Self Harm, Cannibalism Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small monthly donation at patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Show Notes: On giallo horror: Giallo Film List; Sex, Death, and Paperbacks: The History of Giallo Cinema Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Nota, 2017. Sontag, Susan. Notes on Camp. Penguin Books, 2018. Author: Genevieve Newman

This is a standalone/follow-up podcast to my last episode on American slasher films. In this episode I discuss early slashers from the 1970s, the Final Girl trope, and complex personhood. I look at The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Carrie as prototypical films that define and develop the trope which has become a major feature of the horror genre. Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small monthly donation at patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Show Notes: Arvin, Maile Renee. Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race. Dissertation, UC San Diego: b7759918. Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1997. Print "Go Cart - Drop Mix" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/