“Heroic Vampire Bullshit”: Lesbian Desire, Vampires, and Queerness across Iterations of Carmilla

Lost in the Underworld

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

“Heroic Vampire Bullshit”: Lesbian Desire, Vampires, and Queerness across Iterations of Carmilla

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.

Fandom and the Resurrection of Fear in Millennial Horror

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.

Eat Me: Abjection, Camp, and the New French Extremity

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

1970s Slashers and the Radical Reimagining Female Representation

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/