Carol J. Clover – That Shakespearean Rag

Stephen Graham Jones returns to his slasher-film inspiration with the nostalgia saturated novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw

October 18, 2021June 14, 2022

The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.

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Reading The Horror Show

All horror is body horror: An introduction to a month of fear

October 1, 2021June 14, 2022

The genre “specifically devoted to the arousal of bodily sensation” traffics in transgression and finds pleasure in the disreputable.

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Film Non-fiction The Horror Show

Carol J. Clover and gender subversion in the modern horror film

October 6, 2020June 14, 2022

Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.

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