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80s Horror

Sunday, March 29, 2020

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Michael BassGeorgia State University

"Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

By Alexandra Nakelski

Monday, March 30, 2020

Queerer Things: “Bury Your Gays,” Queer Coding, and the Monstrous Other in Stranger Things

By Laura Springman

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

By Adam Cybulski

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

1 comment

The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

By Stephanie A. Graves

Thursday, April 2, 2020

1 comment

The Jason Bateman Algorithm: Horror in the Age of Behavioral Surplus

Friday, April 3, 2020

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80s Horror

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Female Comedians on Netflix

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Kristina Jespersen
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Exploring Citizenship

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Recent comments

Re: The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

Contemporary Incidental Queer Inclusion in AHS: 1984

By Hans Staats

Friday, April 3, 2020 - 23:15

Hello Stephanie, I was impressed with your interpretation of American Horror Story: 1984. I have to admit that I've given up on the show over the past few years and your post has inspired me to reconsider. That said, I'm curious to hear...
Re: Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

Mandy

By Stephanie A. Graves

Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 19:51

Of the two films on which you focus, I've only seen Mandy, which--like you describe--I found disorienting and exhausting at the same time that I was stunned--in a good way--by the outlandish rupture of narrative. It's an incredibly powerful...
Re: Queerer Things: “Bury Your Gays,” Queer Coding, and the Monstrous Other in Stranger Things

Tonight It's You

By Adam Cybulski

Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 16:21

Recently I came across Dominic Haxton's Tonight It's You, a short horror film (clearly influenced by 80s aesthetic as well), that employs queer theme as a narrative device in a noteworthy manner. If you have not seen it, I believe it is worth...
Re: "Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

Subversive films

By Adam Cybulski

Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 16:15

Very interesting piece. Your interpretation, especially passages '[...] America in a time of Reagan-esque optimism' and 'In the Regan-era, militarism was seen as heroic, patriotic, manly and "American" in the specter of the Cold War against Russia...
Re: "Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

Contagion and Pandemic

By Stephanie A. Graves

Wednesday, April 1, 2020 - 23:03

This is so interesting--I love how you recontextualize this film (which I haven't seen in years) through not only Faludi's work but in our pecular cultural moment of COVID-19. The point you make about "ever increasing non-scientific and...