The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies:
THEORIZING HORROR

Wednesdays, January 18 + 25, February 1, 8, 15 + 22
at BLUE SUNSHINE – 3660- St-Laurent, 3rd Flr
www.miskatonicinstitute.com | www.blue-sunshine.com

6-9pm (please note Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare’s class will run 7-10pm)

Course Cost – $45 (includes all 6 classes) | Free for Fantasia Scholarship Students

Up until the 1970s, the horror genre lowest propecia price was perceived as either encouraging sadistic behaviour or endorsing adolescent escapism. With the publication of Robin Wood and Richard Lippe’s American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film in 1979, and with the development of cultural studies more generally, horror genre theorists began to break out from “media effect” theories that often underscored earlier discussions about the genre by film critics and scholars. This six week course will examine the recent history of horror theorizing generic cialis cheap starting in the early-1980s through some of the most influential writings on the genre. From Linda Williams’ essay on women and looking, Barbara Creed’s monstrous-feminine, Tania Modleski’s terror of pleasure, Carol Clover’s final girl, Steven Shaviro’s cinematic bodies, through to Cynthia Freeland’s dread-centred experience of horror, this course will discuss these genre theorists in conjunction with the “major” thinkers that influenced them, such as Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Karl Marx, Laura Mulvey, Gilles Deleuze, and Nöel Carroll. Every session will be taught by a different I use this for my health after doctor told me to do it. I am very surprised with the result. Viagra canada online pharmacy: our pharmacy is the leader in delivering medications throughout the world. instructor. A film screening will accompany each session.

LINE-UP OF INSTRUCTORS AND THEORISTS (THIS BREAKDOWN IS OPEN TO CHANGE):

Week 1:        Anne Golden:             Freud/Williams (1983)
Week 2:        Charlie Ellbé:             Kristeva/Creed (1986)
Week 3:        Candis Steenbergen:         Marx/Modleski (1986)
Week 4:        Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare:     Mulvey/Clover (1987-1992)
Week 5:        Alanna Thain:             Deleuze/Shaviro (1993)
Week 6:        Kristopher Woofter:         Carroll/Freeland (2004)

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid buying generic cialis mexico rx Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.