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• In Media Res
  Re: The Parodic Reprise of 80s Camp Queerness in American Horror Story: 1984

  1980s Influence

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  University of Lodz

  Sunday, April 5, 2020 — 6:48 pm

  Surely, there is—like you described—a lot of horror/sci-fi films and tv shows influenced by the 80s right now, e.g. Summer of 84, Final Girls, It Follows, You're Next, You Might Be the Killer, Tonight It's You, Manborg,  Stranger Things. I wonde ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Films of Panos Cosmatos: Retro as an Aesthetic of Alienation

  Mandy

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  University of Lodz

  Sunday, April 5, 2020 — 6:54 pm

  Thank you for your comment! Yes, I believe so—disintegration of narrative, confusing the viewers are clearly artistic strategies of Cosmatos. When it comes to inward/inside narrative, I refer to this term in context of Deleuze's ideas of Time-Image/c ...
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  Re: "Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

  Subversive films

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  University of Lodz

  Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 4:15 pm

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

  Tonight It's You

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  University of Lodz

  Thursday, April 2, 2020 — 4:21 pm

  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 ch ...