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Spooktober 3.5: The Masque of the Red Death (Corman, 1964)
I reconvene with George & Elliot for our belated Christmas / New Years celebration, a discussion of Roger Corman's masterpiece, 1964's The Masque of the Red Death, an adaptation of about four different Poe stories and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. A gorgeous and spe
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Rebel Yell
Star Wars, America, and the politics of Republic, Empire, and Rebellion Three political categories dominate the Star Wars galaxy: Republic, Empire, and Rebellion. This is the arrangement in The Force Awakens just as much as in the original trilogy. Indeed, it is the apparent impossibility of telling
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Robinson Crusoe and Zombies
On the End of the World, the Zombie Apocalypse, and other comforting Bourgeois Fantasies Say what you like about the zombie apocalypse but at least you don’t have to go to work in the morning. Zombie movies are about how much fun the zombie apocalypse will be. Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Romero’s
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The Property of Possession
On Possession, Property, and Haunting; on Colonialism, Alienation, and Commodity Fetishism Part 3 of a Gothic Marxist Consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production Possession is one of the key concepts in modern Horror, though Horror shares it with other genres. The genre of Horror is ge
Oct 25, 2023 0
Conjuring the Past
On Horror, Childhood, Memory, and Time Part 1 of a Gothic Marxist consideration of Horror as Capitalist Cultural Production In recent years, the mass culture industries have resurrected the 1980s as a stylistic marker, first in Horror with the first film in the two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s
Oct 25, 2023 0
'These Things of Darkness'; Dracula and Frankenstein as Gothic Capitalist Production
“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine” - The Tempest Adaptation, Culture, and Production Dracula, the novel, and Frankenstein, the novel, have one thing in common: they’re unfilmable. The books are unfilmable for different reasons. It boils down to this: Dracula is too bad to film, and Frankens
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Todorov and the Fantastic
A section from an essay I wrote about the TV series Legion: Tzvetan Todorov’s theory of ‘the Fantastic’ sees the genre bifurcating into the ‘uncanny’ and the ‘marvelous’ according to what happens in a given story. Crudely, the former is when something fantastic is found to be ‘unreal’ within the sto
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