By Johanna Isaacson (Spoilers Alert!!!) Like most people alive today in the US, I read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The… Read more Gender Gothic in “The Haunting of Hill House” from Shirley Jackson to Alison Rumfitt

By Johanna Isaacson (Spoilers Alert!!!) Like most people alive today in the US, I read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The… Read more Gender Gothic in “The Haunting of Hill House” from Shirley Jackson to Alison Rumfitt
By Eli Nova Rose As I write, it’s dark before dawn very early on a Saturday morning, and one kid… Read more Between ‘Mothers’ and ‘Females’
By Johanna Isaacson As we enter the age of the “social thriller,” horror is in a transformative moment. Films like… Read more Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning”
By Michael Truscello Like many Albertans, I was thrilled when HBO announced it would be filming The Last of Us TV adaptation in Alberta… Read more HBO’s The Last of Us: Filming (in) Alberta
By Payton McCarty-Simas While Oedipus Rex is the most obvious reference point for Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses,… Read more “The Blade and the Executioner”: Funeral Parade of Roses, Psycho, and Queering the Monstrous Other
By Johanna Isaacson The following is excerpted from Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (Common Notions Press). You can purchase… Read more Precarious Performances: Unplannable Lives of Emotional Laborers in Parasite
By Trey Taylor In a 1985 essay entitled ‘Photography and Fetish’, the visual theorist Christian Metz ventured a number of… Read more Photography, Politics, and Death in All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
By Madeline Lane-McKinley “Don’t misunderstand me, I have no hope,” Marc Maron tells his audience at the outset of his… Read more Maron’s Third Act
By Hunter Bivens (after Heiner Müller’s “The Father”) On a Tuesday morning in October of my tenth year in California,… Read more NOTES ON A DEAD FATHER
By Madeline Lane-McKinley The following is an excerpted chapter from Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times (Common Notions… Read more The Stand-Up Artist in the Age of Gigification