Open Ivory Tower Podcast

This spoiler-heavy podcast is an interview with content editor Kat Kiefer-Newman about all things Campbell, the underworld, and Roxanne Benjamin's Body at Brighton Rock! Her dissertation (Agent of change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades [1990s and early 2000s to 2010] of Postmodern American Movies) can be found here: https://search.proquest.com/openview/337a8b118be1b97b4ee1874edea0a827/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

In this episode I discuss queerness, political potential, and iterations of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu's Carmilla. Show Notes: The Carmilla web series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QzRfvkJZ4 The Carmilla Movie: https://carmillamovie.vhx.tv/ Case, Sue-Ellen. “Tracking the Vampire,” 66–85, 2009. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws. Princeton University Press, 1992. Doty, Alexander. “There’s Something Queer Here.” In Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Duggan, Lisa. “The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism.” In Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics, edited by Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson. Duke University Press, 2002. Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2004.

This stand-alone podcast covers stardom, fandom, and horror film reboots. Episode Notes: Heffernan, Kevin. “Risen from the Vaults: Recent Horror Film Remakes and the American Film Industry.” In Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema, edited by Richard Nowell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Jowett, Lorna, and Stacey Abbott. TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen. I. B. Tauris, 2013. Kiefer-Newman, Katherine. “Agent of Change: A Multiplicity of Female Tricksters in Two Decades (1990S and early 2000S to 2010) of Postmodern American Movies,” n.d. Landay, Lori Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Larsen, Karen, and Lynn Zubernis. Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships. Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2011. Smith, Justin. “Vincent Price and Cult Performance: The Case of Witchfinder General.” In Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification, ed

This is the third installment in my Art House Horror series. In this episode I discuss the New French Extremity, abjection, and camp. I look at Trouble Every Day and In My Skin as examples that embrace complex, messy approaches to identity and personhood. CW: Gore, Rape, Self Harm, Cannibalism Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small monthly donation at patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Show Notes: On giallo horror: Giallo Film List; Sex, Death, and Paperbacks: The History of Giallo Cinema Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Nota, 2017. Sontag, Susan. Notes on Camp. Penguin Books, 2018. Author: Genevieve Newman

This is a standalone/follow-up podcast to my last episode on American slasher films. In this episode I discuss early slashers from the 1970s, the Final Girl trope, and complex personhood. I look at The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Carrie as prototypical films that define and develop the trope which has become a major feature of the horror genre. Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small monthly donation at patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Show Notes: Arvin, Maile Renee. Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race. Dissertation, UC San Diego: b7759918. Clover, Carol. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1992. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1997. Print "Go Ca

In this second podcast in the art house horror series discusses the birth of the slasher movie! In this episode, I’m talking about films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. I also go into how Laura Mulvey, Sigmund Freud, and heteropatriarchy are interconnected in horror. Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small, monthly donation at patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Show Notes: (My first ever print publication!): Bailey, Moya, Micha Cardenas, Laura Horak, Lokeilani Kaimana, Cael M. Keegan, Geneveive Newman, Roxanne Samer, and Rafi Sarkissian. “Sense8 Roundtable.” Ed. Roxanne Samer. Spectator: Transgender Media 37.2 (Fall 2017): 74-88. Link: https://www.academia.edu/33277334/Sense8_Roundtable?s=t Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments. Ed. Marc Furstenau. New York: Routledge, 2010. 200-08. Print. Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version. Trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Or

In this stand-alone podcast I talk about the complicated politics of representation and sexuality in MTV's Scream. Show Notes: If you'd like to support this podcast please go to https://www.patreon.com/openivorytower My other podcast on Scream can be found here: https://openivorytower.org/2016/12/22/episode-6-scream-and-the-meta-final-girl/ Duologue by Javolenus © copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: audiotechnica Written and produced by Geneveive Newman

In this podcast I talk about the importance of oral communication to the history of Irish de/colonialism. I’m analyzing Eimear McBride’s novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, the TV programs The Late Late Show and Give My Head Peace, and the movies The Wind that Shakes the Barley and The Magdalene Sisters. Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small, monthly donation at Patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Notes and references: Neoliberalism Ate My Democracy, Or 1980s and 90s Cult TV: http://openivorytower.org/2017/01/30/1980s-and-90s-cult-tv/ Episode 5: Ms. Ives, The New Old Final Girl: http://openivorytower.org/2016/07/31/episode-5-new-old-final-girl/ Bhabha, Homi. “Of Mimicry and Man.” October. Vol. 28, 1984. 130. Gillespie, Michael Patrick. The Myth of an Irish Cinema: Approaching Irish-Themed Films. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2008. Landay, Lori. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1998. Print. Lloyd, David. Irish Cultu

This podcast kicks off the newest series on art house horror! In this episode, I'm talking about the history of giallo cinema and analyzing Sergio Martino's 1972 film, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key. Want to help support the podcast? Consider making a small, monthly donation at Patreon.com/OpenIvoryTower Resources and Notes: Hall, Stuart. "The Spectacle of the Other." Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Sage in Association with the Open U, 2011. Print. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments, edited by Marc Furstenau, 200-8. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. Needham, Garry. "Playing with Genre An Introduction to the Italian Giallo." Kinoeye 2.11 (2002). Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Black Cat." Internet Archive. The Electronic Books Foundation. Web Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key. Dir. Sergio Martino. Perf. Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, and Luigi Pistilli. Lea Film, 19

This stand-alone podcast is a short discussion of Ariel Schulman’s and Henry Joost’s 2016 epidemic horror film Viral. The film stars Analeigh Tipton (Warm Bodies), Sofia Black D’Elia (Project Almanac), and Travis Tope (The Town That Dreaded Sundown [2014]) and follows two sisters’ attempt to survive both the impending apocalypse and lethal military intervention. This podcast looks at how this specific kind of epidemic horror functions in the broader landscape of the genre, and what the possible significance is for specific types of disease vectors in cinema. For more on bugs in horror, see my blog post here. To help support to my blog/podcast, you can find my Patreon here. References and Further Reading Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997. Print. Clarens, Carlos. An Illustrated History of the Horror Film. New York: Putnam, 1979. Print. Cornea, Christine. Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutge

This stand-alone episode looks at Mike Flanagan’s 2016 film Hush. Hush is a horror film about Maddie, a young writer who is deaf and mute and who has recently moved to a secluded cabin in the woods. The film details one harrowing night when a serial killer arrives at her home. Content Notice: This podcast contains discussions of rape, gendered violence, graphic depictions of injury and physical/mental harm, ableism, and imprisonment, as well as audio clips from the film that some listeners may find disturbing. This podcast was originally published on The Coachella Review’s blog which can be found here: http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/2017/03/24/sonic-horror-geographies-hush-gender-and-disability/ My list of notes and references for this episode is apparently ridiculously long. You can find the complete show notes here: openivorytower.org/2017/04/03/sonic-horror-geographies/ By Geneveive Newman

The last podcast in this series covers the various iterations of gendered tropes in the MTV series Scream and how gender and violence intersect in metafictional horror. References and Further Reading: Althusser, Louis. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. 1977. Print. Bataille, Georges. “The Notion of Expenditure.” Visions of Excess: Selected Writings. 116-29. 1939. Print. Benjamin, Walter. “Critique of Violence.” Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Peter Demetz. New York: Schocken, 1986. 277-300. Print. Bordo, Susan. “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity.” Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: U of California, 1993. N. pag. Print. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Print. Butler, Judith. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print.

Penny Dreadful, having premiered at South by Southwest and airing on Showtime, is a “quality TV” version of episodic horror. The series derives its name from 19th century serialized fiction called penny dreadfuls, and the series’ main characters and narrative arches are derived from classic 19th century horror literature (Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus for example). Further Reading Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997. Print. Clover, Carol J. Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Hand, Richard J., and Jay McRoy. Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. Print. Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. Print. Janisse, Kier-La. House of

Darknet is an adaptation of the Japanese series Torihada (2010-present), and exists as something between a web series, an interactive TV anthology, and a Canadian network series. References and Further Reading Abramowitz, Rachel. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women’s Experience of Power in Hollywood. New York: Random House, 2000. Print. Barnouw, Erik. The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. Print. Clover, Carol J. Men Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Print. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. Hamilton, Patrick. Gas Light, a Victorian Thriller in Three Acts. London: Constable, 1939. Print. Humm, Maggie. Feminism and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997. Print. Janisse, Kier-La. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. Godalming, UK: Fab, 2012. Print. Jones, Norma, Maj

After a much-longer-than-expected hiatus, here’s the third podcast in the Everything is Liminal series! It covers The Cold War, gender, haunting, and radical political potentiality in The Shining. The Faculty of Horror Podcast can be found here: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/ and here’s a direct link to their episode on The Shining which is great: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2015/12/episode-33-all-work-and-no-play-stanley-kubricks-the-shining-1980/ Sources: Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1994. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. London: BFI, 1992. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993. Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Freeland, Cynthia. “Explaining the Uncanny in The Double Life of Véronique”, Horror Film and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Steven Jay Schneider. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Gaiman, Neil. Smoke and Mi

This second podcast delves into the post-apocalytic imaginary, the politics of settler colonialism, and the agentive power of vocalization. Sources and References Arvin, Maile Renee. Pacifically Possessed: Scientific Production and Native Hawaiian Critique of the “Almost White” Polynesian Race. UC San Diego: b7759918. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d99b172 Bataille, Georges. “The Notion of Expenditure.” Visions of Excess: Selected Writings (1939): 116-29. Print. Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. London: Verso, 2001. Print. Iarnáin, Bríd. Keening – Caoineadh Na Marbh. Bríd Iarnáin. Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 1949. RTÉ Archives. Web. 08 Feb. 2016. Lloyd, David. Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000: The Transformation of Oral Space. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print. Silva, Denise Ferreira da. Toward a Global Idea of Race. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Project MUSE. Web. 8 Feb. 2016.

This first podcast jumps us into the concept for the series and explores the intersections of politics, history, and media by taking a close analytical look at the 2013-present series The Fall. Sources and References: Cubitt, Allan. The Fall. BBC Two, RTE One. Ireland and UK, 13 May 2013. Television. Gennep, Arnold Van. Rites De Passage. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1960. Print. Landay, Lori. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1998. Print. Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York City: Pantheon, 1949. Print. Barton, Ruth, and Harvey O’Brien, . Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television. London: Wallflower Press, 2004. Gillespie, Michael Patrick. The Myth of an Irish Cinema: Approaching Irish-Themed Films. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2008. Lloyd, David. Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000: The Transformation of Oral Space. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Pettitt, Lance. Screening Ireland: Film and Televis