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A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
Monstrum 1  | April 2018  | ISSN 2561-5629
Editor-in-Chief: Kristopher Woofter
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
Editor's Introduction to MONSTRUM 1
Welcome to the inaugural issue of MONSTRUM, a forum for scholars of the macabre, the monstrous, the sensational, exploitation, dark speculation, and all sorts of other critical subversions of reality as we know and accept it. Published in Montréal by a scholarly community called the Montréal Monstrum Society (MMS), MONSTRUM is an open-access, blind peer-reviewed, ISSN-listed publication. We are proud to provide a forum for established and developing scholars, as well as undergraduate and college-level students in our "Student Forum."

All content is available in downloadable PDFs. 
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MONSTRUM 1, kicks off with a critical retrospective on the career of American filmmaker George A. Romero, with fourteen scholars covering Romero's sixteen-film career. Five feature essays follow, covering varied topics. Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare discusses how the "southern question" in Italy generated a shared attractions sensibility between two Italian masters of cinema. Gary D. Rhodes' work traces how the term "horror film" came to be in 1930s writing on cinema. Virginie Selavy's study of Michael Powell's game-changing Peeping Tom challenges the psychoanalytical frameworks most often associated with (and encouraged by) the film. Michael Wood discusses the parallels and shared context regarding two of Hammer Studios' 1960s occult films, one of them largely forgotten. And Kristopher Woofter looks at the radical politics and subversion of factual discourse in the horror pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle.

​Book reviews of Alanna Thain's Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema (2017) and Patricia Pender's I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (2016) follow. And, as part of MONSTRUM's commitment to developing scholars,  the issue is rounded out by V. Samoylenko's work, critiquing the ways David Robert Mitchell's critically lauded 2015 film, It Follows, openly defies the paranoid stigmas attached to sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).


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 this inaugural issue possible. 


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"The Death of Death": A Memorial Retrospective on George A. Romero (1940-2017)
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In July 2017, American cinema lost one of its masters. This feature includes critical reflections by a number of scholars on all of Romero's films, from Night of the Living Dead to Survival of the Dead.
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EDITED BY KRISTOPHER WOOFTER
CONTRIBUTORS: Stacey Abbott, Simon Brown, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Clayton Dillard, Will Dodson, Lorna Jowett, Adam Lowenstein, R. Million, Carl Sederholm, Christopher Sharrett, J.A. Shea, 
Annaëlle Winand, Tony Williams, Kristopher Woofter
FEATURE ESSAYS
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DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (Lucio Fulci, 1971)

​Lucio Fulci's Poetics of Attractions: The Cinema of Poetry and the "Southern Question" in Don't Torture a Duckling


MARIO DEGIGLIO-BELLEMARE
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"Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots" (A. Clark, T. Edison, 1895)
"Horror Film": How the Term Came to Be

​​GARY D. RHODES 

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PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, 1960)

​Peeping Tom: The Petrifying Gaze of Mechanical Medusa

​VIRGINIE SELAVY
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THE WITCHES (Cyril Frankel, 1966)

​Witches and Demons: The Occult in
Two Hammer Films from the 1960s


​MICHAEL WOOD

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THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (Walon Green, 1971)
Radical Diversion:  Attractions Politics in the Horror Pseudo-documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle

​KRISTOPHER WOOFTER
REVIEWS
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Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema
ALANNA THAIN
​(U. of Minnesota Press, 2017)
$30 USD (pbk.)

Reviewer:
MARIO DEGIGLIO-BELLEMARE
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I'm Buffy and You're History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism
PATRICIA PENDER
​(Bloomsbury/IBT, 2016)
$32.85 USD (pbk.)


​Reviewer:
KRISTOPHER WOOFTER
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STUDENT FORUM
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IT FOLLOWS (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
"Defying STIgma in It Follows"

​V. SAMOYLENKO
​Dawson College, Montreal

MONSTRUM  | Volume 1  | April 2018  | ISSN 2561-5629
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      • MONSTRUM v7 n2 (December 2024)
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      • MONSTRUM v6 n1 (June 2023)
      • MONSTRUM v5 n2 (December 2022)
      • MONSTRUM v5 n1 (June 2022)
      • MONSTRUM v4 (2021)
      • MONSTRUM v3 (2020/21)
      • MONSTRUM v2 (2019)
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