Horror Lex®Oct 9, 2024
Studies in the Fantastic is dedicated to spooky TV w/a retrospective on THE X-FILES and its best "monsters of the week" + essays on THE LAST OF US and demon realism. Read #ProjectMuse From @jordanscarroll and friends. #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53292
Project MUSE - Studies in the Fantastic-Number 17, Summer/Fall 2024

Horror Lex®Oct 2, 2024
That Chucky is just a Midwestern guy at heart, don'cha know? Alice Tremea's new essay looks at CHILD'S PLAY (1988 & 2019) and how the city of Chicago is depicted as the host of doll rampage. #ProjectMuse #MiddleWestReview #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/937638
Project MUSE - <i>Erasing Chicago: A Comparative Analysis of Child's Play</i> (dir. by Tom Holland, 1988) and: <i>Child's Play</i> (dir. by Lars Klevberg, 2019) (review)

Horror Lex®Sep 27, 2024
Dale Pattison proposes that "It" follows suburban Detroit, dragging its racist-economic history with it. "Neoliberal Horror: It Follows & the Time of Urban Progress" is new from J Narrative Theory #ProjectMuse. #horror #academia
https://doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2024.a937162
Project MUSE - Neoliberal Horror: <i>It Follows</i> and the Time of Urban Progress

Horror Lex®Sep 16, 2024
Let's check up north, shall we? Canadian Review of American Studies has essays from Brent Yergensen chasing the elusive evil of the serial killer all the way to Edvard Munch's "The Scream" & Carlen Lavigne on the feminine horror in STRANGER THINGS. #ProjectMuse #horror #academia
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53158
Project MUSE - Canadian Review of American Studies-Volume 54, Number 2, August 2024

Horror Lex®Aug 5, 2024
"Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes." Sebastian Croft dives deep into history and Quint's famous monologue in a new essay, "Bomb Voyage: The USS Indianapolis disaster in American Cinema, National Memory & Jaws." From Film & History #ProjectMuse #horror #academia
https://doi.org/10.1353/flm.2024.a933221
Project MUSE - Bomb Voyage: The USS Indianapolis disaster in American Cinema, National Memory, and Jaws (1975)

Horror Lex®Jun 18, 2024
GoPro, meet your grandpa: the body-mounted camera. Cooper Long explains the cinematic tech used in John Frankenheimer's surgical sci-fi thriller SECONDS (1966) & later films like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. In the latest Film History, just landed on #ProjectMuse. #horror #academia
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/929776
Project MUSE - Between Handheld Camera and Steadicam: The Body-Mounted Cinematography of Seconds (1966) and Its Legacies

Horror Lex®May 29, 2024
"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels." The latest JCMS has essays from Emily Naser-Hall on womens' bodily autonomy in law, THE BIRDS, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD + Jerome Dent on GET OUT, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. #ProjectMuse #horror
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52546
Project MUSE - JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies-Volume 63, Issue 3, Spring 2024

Horror Lex®Mar 19, 2024
All together now: "JAAAAAAMES!" If you're down with the "new weirdness" of Brandon Cronenberg's INFINITY POOL, check out M. Keith Booker & Isra Daraiseh's new essay for Science Fiction Film & TV about global capitalism & clone dystopias. #ProjectMuse #horror
https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2024.3
Horror Lex®Feb 12, 2024
It's a blood red-letter day when someone writes about THE BROOD (1979). Sarah Manley's new piece for J Lit & Cultural Disability Studies explores Nola's trauma, her rage-babies, and the "eugenic gaze" in Cronenberg's film. Available at #ProjectMuse #horror #davidcronenberg
https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2023.43
The Hopkins ReviewFeb 2, 2024

Poems by #TerranceHayes and #ClaudiaRankine on CLMP’s #BlackHistoryMonth reading list. Both Hayes and Rankine’s work is free to read and download all month on #ProjectMUSE.

https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-black-history-month-2024/

A Reading List for Black History Month 2024 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the books and literary journals they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry   Rupture by Monique Adelle Codhill Press | 2023 Rupture “weaves together the history of enslaved women in the […]

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