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Last week, Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group held our annual international conference, Horror Studies Now.
For anyone who missed it, here is our annual highlight reel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxm5...
Essays in the latest CINEJ tackle some horror heavy-hitters: mental health in MIDSOMMAR and gendered aging in THE SUBSTANCE. Get it #openaccess from authors Moritz Wischert-Zielke and @meltemcemiloglu.bsky.social.
cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/index.ph...
[2/2] Grab a discounted copy of Scared Sacred (complete with a numbered first-edition cert and extra goodies) with our Weird Sisters: Covenant pre-order: kck.st/4ni8q56!
We only have a few copies left—thank you to everyone who has supported our crowdfunder by bundling books! 🖤
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Final Girl, Ideal Victim? Jacky Burrows thinks about the gendered link between slasher heroines like Laurie Strode and the targets of real-life crime. #openaccess at @crimemediaculture.bsky.social
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Were you recently enthralled by INCANTATION, thrilled by DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY, annihilated by THE SADNESS? Corrado Neri has the book for you! "Taiwanese Horror Cinema" is out today from @anthempress.bsky.social to explain the terrors of a small but mighty island.
anthempress.com/books/taiwan...
Dr. Frankenstein isn't the only one to birth a monster. "Times of Horror, Magic & the Reproductive Body in Pop Culture" has essays on messed-up parenthood in BIRTH/REBIRTH, GOOD MANNERS, CHUCKY + more. @ruthbarrattpeacock.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Times-of-Hor...
"How do you think people become famous any more?" Diana Nieva considers SCREAM 4 as no ordinary slasher, but one that contemplates "what it means for a creative work to die." #openaccess in Arts journal @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
Secret horse code unlocked! The latest Black Camera has essays from Vincent Jaunas on NOPE (2022) and "the Double Bind of Black filmmakers in Hollywood" + Tarja Laine on the social critique of "Black Skin, White Voices" in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
The latest Horror Studies is packed w/warlocks, slasher games, scary old ladies in HEREDITARY & found footage folk horror. @intellectbooks.bsky.social. Film essays by #PaytonMcCartySimas #JunxianCai #MarcusNicholls #JonathonCrewe #DennisOlsen #IsaiahFrostRivera
www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies
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Three horror books are getting a little lighter: New paperbacks are out for "Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media" - "The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema" - "Theorizing Stephen King." @routledgebooks.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Re-Imagining...
