Creaturely Fear

Online symposium and prospective edited collection on animality in horror cinema | 21-22 July 2022 | Organised by @petersands1 @b_yondthehuman @samjhind

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We’re so excited to share the programme for CREATURELY FEAR: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA

We have a fantastic schedule of talks over the afternoons (BST) of 21-22 July. Registration is free and open to all, and can be found at the eventbrite linked below:

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New collection on the Gothic Anthropocene: https://t.co/Ll0moDG6ZG

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This looks amazing!

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🐝Candyman Registration is now LIVE! 🐝

The Centre for the History of the Gothic at the Sheffield and University of California, Riverside are delighted to announce that registration for their online conference @WholeDamnSwarm is now live! 🧵

#GothsAssemble

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‘Her Brains Are All Over Her Body’: Jeff VanderMeer’s Avian Weird https://t.co/KUS4w7VCEA

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Thank you to all our amazing contributors and attendees for making #CreaturelyFear a success! We are really excited to translate these ideas into plans for an edited collection, and we will be in touch with contributors about submitting abstracts very soon, so watch this space!

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Lux ends our presentations on an idea from @jeffreyjcohen that speaks to the concerns of every presentation we have seen: monsters 'ask us why we have created them' #CreaturelyFear

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The final panel of the day will be The Audio Visual Animal, starting with Ashley Bullen-Cutting’s paper ‘Killer Wail: Colouring Nonhuman Trauma in Orca: The Killer Whale’ 🐋 #creaturelyfear

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Lux’s comic FAMOUS MONSTERS draws on B-movie horror, zombies and the music of Misfits to examine the ways that the figure of the endling haunts our cultural representations of extinction #creaturelyfear

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Brophy: RAW invites reflection on the exploitation of animals in social and cultural ritual, as well as in the horror genre itself. Violence towards animal bodies on film presages bloody practical effects in horror cinema #creaturelyfear

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Next up we have the panel Generic Transgressions, beginning with Thomas Aiello’s paper ‘Four Flies on Grey Velvet: Animals in Dario Argento and Italian Giallo Horror of the 1960s and 1970s’ 🪰🔪#creaturelyfear

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Finally, we have Gregory Brophy’s paper: ‘Made in the Harming: Animal Rites in Julia Ducournau’s Raw’ #creaturelyfear

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Sharma is back to discuss the Malayam action-thriller JALLIKATTU and its challenge to anthropocentric thinking and the logics of meat consumption #CreaturelyFear

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We're beginning day 2 with the panel Social Resistance / Animal Control, opening with @morganmushroom's paper 'Lost in Transmission: Rabbits as ecohorror spectacles in The Year of the Angry Rabbit and Night of the Lepus'

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Broemmer reads ZOMBEAVERS via Carol Adams's The Sexual Politics of Meat. Despite some crude beaver-themed double entendres, the film's representations of women, beavers and hybrid-women-beavers provide an inadvertently subversive ecofeminist meat critique #CreaturelyFear

[MK Pinder @morganmushroom]

See that is how you do a B movie with ecocritical implications!
Alexa Broemmer, 'Beaver Fever: Zombeavers as Ecofeminist Critique' @CreaturelyFear #CreaturelyFear