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Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Colophon

The auteur as film geek: Quentin Tarantino delivers a vulgar love letter to the films that inspired him

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022

Cinema Speculation is a good primer on the groundbreaking cinema that influenced one of the savviest, most provocative filmmakers of his own generation.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Horror Show

The chain saw and the shark: Cultural critic W. Scott Poole examines the twin poles of American horror in Dark Carnivals

October 26, 2022October 29, 2022

Poole's extended argument about the dominance of American empire and the ways horror filmmakers (and, to a lesser extent, novelists) have responded to it is potent and challenging.

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CanLitFilmThe Horror Show

In Nightmare Fuel, Canadian author Nina Nesseth investigates the neuroscience underpinning why people love being scared at the movies

October 4, 2022October 4, 2022

As a primer to the ways cinematic horror works on audiences' psyches and the specific neurological responses these techniques can elicit, Nightmare Fuel is a breezy and fluent read.

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FilmInternational LiteratureNon-fictionThe Horror Show

Vampires, mad scientists, and American psychos: David J. Skal examines some cultural underpinnings of the horror genre

February 2, 2022June 14, 2022

In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.

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CriticismFilmThe Colophon

“Seriously flawed and morally questionable”: Guillermo del Toro, German expressionism, and the nature of noir

December 16, 2021June 14, 2022

A noir sensibility finds its origins in German expressionism and creates a neurotic environment in which the borderline between good and evil is nonexistent.

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FilmInternational LiteratureThe Horror Show

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark returns in a new book that also recalls an earlier contender for dark queen of late-night horror

October 29, 2021June 14, 2022

A volume of cultural criticism about Vampira and a new memoir by the creator of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark show how much, and how little, the two have in common.

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FilmThe Horror Show

Conan Tobias on a quarter-century quest to watch every episode of the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows

October 25, 2021June 14, 2022

The pop culture phenomenon resulted in board games and a central character’s appearance alongside Bozo the Clown.

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FilmInternational LiteratureThe Horror Show

Carvell Wallace on America’s history of exploiting Black pain for cheap scares

October 22, 2021June 14, 2022

Nia DaCosta’s re-imagining of the 1992 film Candyman proves more effective because it does not traffic in white voyeurism in its examination of Black trauma.

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FilmThe Horror Show

On resilience, the pandemic, and the surprising benefits of consuming horror fiction

October 19, 2021June 14, 2022

“By scaring you in your seat without actually posing a threat, you have the opportunity to practice your emotion regulation skills, particularly with regard to fear.”

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