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Race, Gender and Terror: The Primitive in 1950s Horror Films

Dec. 1, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) [2] Neil’s transformation is not just from white to black but from modern to primitive. At first, Neil believes that he has Chippewa blood in his...

NeoSlaves: Slavery, Freedom, and African American Apotheosis in Candyman, The Matrix, and The Green Mile

Nov. 1, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) What became transparent were the self-evident ways that Americans choose to talk about themselves through and within a sometimes allegorical, sometimes metaphorical, but always choked representation...

Passing For Horror: Race, Fear, and Elia Kazan’s Pinky

Oct. 1, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) [1] Film genres routinely mix and evolve over time in ways that change our expectations of them, and change the way that we as audiences read...

The Horrors of Remembrance: The Altered Visual Aesthetic of Horror in Jonathan Demme’s Beloved.

Sept. 1, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) [1] Jonathan Demme’s Beloved (1998) , a film which tries to cope with the trauma of slavery, is a horror film in that it uses, and...

Technologies of Race: Special Effects, Fetish, Film, and the Fifteenth Century

Aug. 1, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) [1] In periodizing film studies as a modern/modernist phenomenon simply because film technology emerges at the end of the nineteenth century, film scholars sometimes miss the...

Daywalkin’ Night Stalkin’ Bloodsuckas: Black Vampires in Contemporary Film

July 2, 2004

(part of a series in Special Issue #40: Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the “Horror Film” – Guest Editor: Frances Gateward ) [2] For adults there are the novels of vampire lore in the style of classic horror, such as Richard Laymon’sThe Traveling Vampire Show; the eroticized tales...

A Labour of Patriotism: Female Soviet Gymnasts’ Physical and Ideological Work, 1952-1991

June 1, 2004

[1] “Smile! Otherwise, the spectator will see how hard you’re working, and the illusion will be lost” – (coach Renald Knysh to Olga Korbut). [2] Soviet women gymnasts enjoyed world dominance in their sport from 1952 until the collapse of the Soviet Union almost 40 years later. But the celebration...

States of Emergency: The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER

May 1, 2004

[1] In popular American television of the past thirty years, the workplace has evolved into the primary setting for the production of multi-plot serial narrative and ensemble character drama. While economic shifts within the television industry can partly account for this development, a genealogy of workplace television drama must also...

“Quality Postfeminism?” Sex and the Single Girl on HBO

April 1, 2004

Figure 1-The Cast of Sex and the City [1] A very vibrant area of work in television studies at the moment dedicates itself to freshening up debates over “quality television” in an era of “must-see” programming (see Jancovich & Lyons, as well as Carr, Metz & Tankel, forthcoming). This article...

Subversion of the In/Out Model in Understanding Hemingway Texts

March 1, 2004

[1] In Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Tennessee Williams’ 1980 ghost play about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway appears as a character who is anxious about his own gender and sexuality. While he lives up to his popular macho image, he also acknowledges another side of his character when...

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