ISSUES
“Transnational Horror Media Now” Special Issue 22.3 (Fall 2024)
Guest Editor: Max Bledstien
ARTICLES
What is not real can be felt into being: affective threat in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
By Emma Train
The Jewish Cronenberg: a cinema of therapeutic disintegration
By Adam Lowenstein
‘It’s not really a cat’: Art, media, and wildness in Cat People (1942, 1982)
By Alex Zivkovic
Precious footage of the auteur at work: framing, accessing, using, and cultifying Vivian Kubrick’s Making the Shining
By Kate Egan
‘Re-imagining’ the canon: examining the discourse of contemporary horror film reboots
By Joe Tompkins
CINEMA AS SECOND SKIN: Under the membrane of horror film
By Tarja Laine
‘Look Out Behind You!’ Grounding suspense in the slasher film
By Maarten Coëgnarts and Miklós Kiss
‘Thrills and chills’: horror, the woman’s film, and the origins of film noir
By Mark Jancovich
Rethinking genre studies through distribution analysis: issues in international horror movie circuits
By Ramon Lobato and Mark David Ryan
Dead, but still breathing: the problem of postmortem movement in horror films
By David Scott Diffrient
Poetics of early Hammer horror films: a statistical style analysis
By Jonathan Olliver
Activist horror film: the genre as tool for change
By Johnny Walker
‘From grade B thrillers to deluxe chillers’: prestige horror, female audiences, and allegories of spectatorship in The Spiral Staircase (1946)
By Tim Snelson
Commodity horror: Videodrome and the industrialisation of Canadian culture
By Harry Warwick
The feminine appeal of British horror cinema
By Alison Peirse
Get Out and the legacy of sundown suburbs in post-racial America
By Elizabeth A. Patton
Losing control: Until Dawn as interactive movie
By Tanine Allison
Cronenberg’s anesthetics (virtual flesh)
By Timothy Holland
Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies
By Jamie Sexton
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me: the ambivalent queer of post-network television
By Andrew J. Owens
Dis/liking disgust: the revulsion experience at the movies
By Julian Hanich
Theatre of thrills: the culture of suspense
By Frank Krutnik
REVIEWS
Eraserhead (BFI Film Classics)
Review by Clayton Dillard
by Claire Henry
London: British Film Institute, 2023, 120 pp. $17.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781839025600
New blood in contemporary cinema: women directors and the poetics of horror
Review by Rose Steptoe
by Patricia Pisters, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 256 pp., $110.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781474466950
Troubling masculinities: terror, gender, and monstrous others in American film post-9/11
Review by Paul Doro
by Glenn Donnar, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2020, 256 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9781496828583
BLOG
Something in the Midsommar Air
By Jessie Krahn
“Monsters All, Are We Not?”: An Interview with Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel
With Julie Grossman, Will Scheibel, and Matt Boyd Smith
The Bind of Exceptional Women: Alicia Kozma in Conversation on the Cinema of Stephanie Rothman
With Alicia Kozma and Maya Montañez Smukler
