Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology and the Specter of Nostalgia (Online)
Tue. Mar. 26, 2024 - 2:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDTThis lecture is an introduction to the critical lens of hauntology, a philosophical approach that uses the metaphors of ghosts and hauntings to interrogate nostalgia, which has seeped into many aspects of 21st century horror.
By the Numbers: Roberta Findlay, Home Video and the Horror Film (London)
Tue. Mar. 12, 2024 - 7:00 pm GMT - 8:30 pm GMTThe Horse Hospital
Roberta Findlay, the queen of exploitation.
Red/Wolf: Transformations in Screen Adaptations of “Red Riding Hood” (Online)
Tue. Feb. 20, 2024 - 2:00 pm EST - 4:00 pm ESTThis lecture will interrogate gothic film and television adaptations of “Red Riding Hood” which examine the story’s false binaries, and expose its themes of sexual abuse and recovery.
"Just Love Me and Eat": The Romantic Cannibal and Romantic Cannibalism (London)
Tue. Feb. 6, 2024 - 7:00 pm GMT - 8:30 pm GMTThe Horse Hospital
How much can you love someone?
Representations of Mexico in US Horror (Online)
Tue. Jan. 23, 2024 - 2:00 pm EST - 4:00 pm ESTIn United States horror cinema, representations of Mexico—or more precisely, of fictional US characters’ experience of Mexico—have contributed to the imagined position of Mexico as a familiar yet subordinate and dangerous Other.
Land Down Under: Australian Gothic Horror (London)
Tue. Dec. 12, 2023 - 7:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMTThe Horse Hospital
In this lecture Lindsay Hallam will explore what is meant by “Australian Gothic” and survey its use in films from the 1970s to the present. She will discuss how the representation of Australia as a Gothic landscape reveals the horror that has been enacted upon it through the process of colonisation.
CANCELLED: Hell, Purgatory, and Otherworlds In Horror Films (Online)
Tue. Dec. 5, 2023 - 2:00 pm EST - 4:00 pm ESTThis class has been cancelled and replaced with Vampirism Gone Viral: Medical Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy.
Vampirism Gone Viral: Medical Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy (Online)
Tue. Dec. 5, 2023 - 2:00 pm EST - 4:00 pm ESTThis lecture will consider the ways that post-AIDS crisis vampires in film and television, from BLADE (1998) to the cusp of COVID-19, have engaged with broad-ranging misunderstandings to demonstrate how people think about and fear infection, contagion, and containment.
Ferocious Fatherhood: Representations of Fatherhood and Masculinity in American horror cinema, 1970-1979 (London)
Tue. Nov. 21, 2023 - 7:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMTThe Horse Hospital
This talk aims to showcase how the complexity of the portrayals of fatherhood in 1970s American horror cinema showcases the cultural anxieties and social changes of the era and the multifaceted nature of fatherhood itself.
Midnight Rambles: H.P. Lovecraft In Gotham - a live conversation with author David J. Goodwin (NYC)
Fri. Nov. 10, 2023 - 7:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm ESTP&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts
“A brief, but amazingly thorough discussion of Lovecraft’s biography.” — W. Scott Poole, author of Dark Carnivals