By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
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On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw
“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.” — Bertolt Brecht [1] By Madeline Lane-McKinley | In the… Read more Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw
Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
By Rei Terada| i. In Pope.L’s film Reenactor (2012), a continuous loop of almost six hours in its longest version,… Read more Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
Tragedy Girls: The Work of Art in the Age of the Young Girl Blogger Murder Spree
By Johanna Isaacson | Tragedy Girls (2017) is a film that follows two best friends who go on a murder… Read more Tragedy Girls: The Work of Art in the Age of the Young Girl Blogger Murder Spree
Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
By Kenan Behzat Sharpe | “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Finnegan’s… Read more Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits
By Johanna Isaacson | Towards the end of the film The Fits (2015) we see the protagonist, Toni (Royalty Hightower)… Read more Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits
In/Visibility in Dirty Pretty Things
By Aria Alamalhodaei | In 1999, the average person in Great Britain was captured on closed circuit television (CCTV) nearly… Read more In/Visibility in Dirty Pretty Things
Women Acting Out in (Cognitive) Maps to the Stars
By Johanna Isaacson | The rise of feminized labor, with its blurred boundaries and emotional demands, leads to new forms… Read more Women Acting Out in (Cognitive) Maps to the Stars
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