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Issue 6.1, June 2023 | ISSN 2561-5629
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Editorial Assistant: Eva Crocker
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
Editor: Kristopher Woofter
Editorial Assistant: Eva Crocker
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
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Editor's Introduction to MONSTRUM 5.1
MONSTRUM 5, Issue 1, presents three feature essays, a feature interview, and publication of the first in our 'Horror Reverie' series of symposia on key horror films. In the first of our feature essays, Mikaela Bobiy discusses the importance of "unconscious communication" to David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone. With Videodrome coming out the same year, it is easy to overlook Cronenberg's masterful adaptation of Stephen King's novel, and Bobiy's analysis of the film's breakdown of conscious and unconscious realities--following from her Winter 2019 lecture on the film for the MMS course "A Year in Horror: 1983"--is an equally masterful recovery of a Cold War film that eerily prefigures the current political era in the US and abroad. Jeffrey Klaehn's interview with Soren Narnia is ....
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Diyuti Sudipta and Samira Nadkarni, Qian Zhang This year's SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize: Selected by a jury of SCMS-SIG scholars and the Monstrum founding editors, this essay by.
Monstrum is pleased to collaborate with the Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG), part of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), in the selection and publication of their annual prize-winning graduate student essay.
February 2022 marks the first time Monstrum has incorporated a video symposium as part of our regular publication. "Horror Reverie 1: An Online Symposium Celebrating 100 Years of Nosferatu" is the first in a series of our online symposia on important horror films that have made an impact on both the horror genre, its fandom, and its scholarship. We promise to work toward the best format for presenting such initiatives. For now, we present the symposium in video format with full transcripts available. Thanks to Gary D. Rhodes and Mark Jancovich for their support in this initiative.
Monstrum 5.1 features reviews of five recent scholarly books that we hope will inspire our readers to consider.
All content is available in downloadable PDFs. Scroll down below to browse the contents of this issue of Monstrum.
Above all, thank you for reading Monstrum.
— Kristopher Woofter
Monstrum is pleased to collaborate with the Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG), part of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), in the selection and publication of their annual prize-winning graduate student essay.
February 2022 marks the first time Monstrum has incorporated a video symposium as part of our regular publication. "Horror Reverie 1: An Online Symposium Celebrating 100 Years of Nosferatu" is the first in a series of our online symposia on important horror films that have made an impact on both the horror genre, its fandom, and its scholarship. We promise to work toward the best format for presenting such initiatives. For now, we present the symposium in video format with full transcripts available. Thanks to Gary D. Rhodes and Mark Jancovich for their support in this initiative.
Monstrum 5.1 features reviews of five recent scholarly books that we hope will inspire our readers to consider.
All content is available in downloadable PDFs. Scroll down below to browse the contents of this issue of Monstrum.
Above all, thank you for reading Monstrum.
— Kristopher Woofter
Contributors to Monstrum 5.1: Mikaela Bobiy, Jeffrey Klaehn, Cristina Massaccesi, Samira Nadkarni, Dyuti Sudipta, Anne Young, Qian Zhang, and the panelists for 'Horror Reverie 1': E. Elias Merhige, Stephen Bissette, John Edgar Browning, Steve Choe, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Argyle Goolsby, Lokke Heiss, Murray Leeder, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, and Milly Williamson.
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank Brigid Cherry, Will Dodson, Ildikó Glaser-Hille, Steven Greenwood, Mark Jancovich, Adam Lowenstein, Sonia Lupher, Gary D. Rhodes, Sydney Sheedy, Robert Singer, Will Straw, Alanna Thain, Ishita Tiwary, Erica Tortolani, Ayesha Vemuri, Johnny Walker, and Rick Worland.
Cover image credit: Nosferatu (1922, directed by F.W. Murnau)
Monstrum is supported by an editorial board of respected scholars in horror and related fields. We thank our collaborators, instructors, contributors and peer reviewers for making MONSTRUM possible.
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank Brigid Cherry, Will Dodson, Ildikó Glaser-Hille, Steven Greenwood, Mark Jancovich, Adam Lowenstein, Sonia Lupher, Gary D. Rhodes, Sydney Sheedy, Robert Singer, Will Straw, Alanna Thain, Ishita Tiwary, Erica Tortolani, Ayesha Vemuri, Johnny Walker, and Rick Worland.
Cover image credit: Nosferatu (1922, directed by F.W. Murnau)
Monstrum is supported by an editorial board of respected scholars in horror and related fields. We thank our collaborators, instructors, contributors and peer reviewers for making MONSTRUM possible.
Monstrum is part of the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC) and is grateful for the generous support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). / Monstrum est reconnaissant du généreux soutien du Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC).
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FEATURE ESSAYS & FEATURE INTERVIEW
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THE DEAD ZONE (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Sensory Overload: Unconscious Communication
and Inter-personal Psychosis in David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone MIKAELA BOBIY |
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THE BABADOOK (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
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It's All About Repetition: Maternal Time in Horror
from Jeanne Dielman to The Babadook QIAN ZHANG SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-Winner |
SPECIAL FEATURE
HORROR REVERIE 1: AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF NOSFERATU
HORROR REVERIE 1: AN ONLINE SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF NOSFERATU
NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
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INTRODUCTION
Nosferatu: A Glacial Blast of Air Still Blowing from the Beyond CRISTINA MASSACCESI Click the image or here for a full-text PDF of the Introduction.
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Panel 1: The Legacy of Nosferatu
Speakers: E. Elias Merhige, Stephen Bissette, Argyle Goolsby Chair Gary D. Rhodes |
Panel 2: Historical and Other Contexts
Speakers: Steve Choe, Lokke Heiss, Murray Leeder, Milly Williamson Chair: Erica Tortolani |
Panel 3: Style, Theme, Politics, Aesthetics
Speakers: John Edgar Browning, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn; Chair: Robert Singer |
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Click here for a full transcript of Panel 1
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Click here for a full transcript of Panel 2
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Click here for a full transcript of Panel 3
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BOOK REVIEWS
Click the book cover for review.
Ghost Channels: Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First Century America
by Amy Lawrence University Press of Mississippi, 2022 US$30 (pbk) Reviewer:
KEVIN CHABOT |
The Symbolic Potential of the Hybrid: Anita Blake and Horror and Vampire Literature
by Virginia Fusco Peter Lang, 2021 US$67.95 (h/c) Reviewer:
IAN CLARK |
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema
Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen Fordham University Press, 2021 US$30 (pbk) Reviewer:
ZACHARY DOIRON |
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
by Rosalind Galt Columbia University Press, 2021) US$35 (pbk) Reviewer:
JEANNETTE GOON |
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu (Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions)
by Aoife Mary Dempsey University of Wales Press, 2022 US$88 (h/c) Reviewer:
ANNE YOUNG |
