My first book, Contemporary British Horror Cinema, is going cheap over at Edinburgh University Press. You can pick up one of the last few hardback editions for £7.50 each. This is anticipation of the paperback edition coming out at the beginning of next year (which will retail at around £20).
But is it worth £7.50? Barry Forshaw over at crimetime.co.uk seems to like it! Read his recent review below. Thanks Barry!
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Yesterday -- appropriately Halloween! -- I delivered a class at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge for Dr Tanya Horeck's course 'Theorising Spectatorship'. My lecture introduced students to the category 'Realist Horror' as outlined by Cynthia A. Freeland in 1995. We considered various examples from film history including Psycho, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Last Horror Movie and, lastly, the film that the students would go on to discuss in their seminars, Resurrecting the Street Walker. Tanya was kind enough to set the third chapter from my book Contemporary British Horror Cinema as reading.
I'd like to extend my thanks to Tanya for inviting me, and to her very attentive students for listening to my talk. Last month, some colleagues and I established a monthly film night for the staff and students in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria. Last night we screened Evil Dead (2013): Fede Alvarez's excellent remake of Sam Raimi's original from 1981. I introduced the film, situating it within the long cultural aftermath of the British "video nasties" panic and in relation to notions of cultural "recycling" in the wake of Donald Trump's regressive "Make American Great Again" nonsense. The Evil Dead remake, I contended, can be thought of as a particularly progressive form of a cultural recycling, in that, by being a more "extreme" version of a previously banned film, it illustrates how futile state censorship ultimately proves to be. Images courtesy Shaan Mahmud
I have any essay in the Routledge Companion to British Cinema History, edited by I.Q. Hunter, Laraine Porter and Justin Smith. The proofs came through yesterday. It's a terrific book, and I feel very fortunate to have my work appear alongside so many terrific scholars.
My essay derives from my research into British video culture and is entitled: 'Rewind, playbook: re-viewing the "video boom" in Britain'. On 12 November I'll be delivering a keynote lecture about death films at a conference being held at TU Dortmund, Germany: Spectacular Now: The Politics of the Contemporary Spectacle.
The full programme has just been announced and can be accessed here. |
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