You know it's there, but you can't play it!
For MTC, Emily Naser-Hall revisits the VHS tape and its haunting resurgence in the present. A perfect, perfectly haunted piece of cultural criticism to start off your spooky season 📼
https://t.co/vbZ5QYZtBm
Check out this incredibly interesting essay by @emilynaserhall on Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cociña’s The Wolf House (2018), a stunning & weird film about violence and postcolonialism
https://t.co/ikv3dtgTqX
Always love working with @DawnKeetley and @horrorhomeroom, and this opportunity to explore maybe the most disturbing film ever was no different
https://t.co/h3y6ySjc2r
"Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels." The latest @JCMSJournal has essays from @emilynaserhall on womens' bodily autonomy in law, THE BIRDS, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD + Jerome Dent on GET OUT, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. @ProjectMuse
https://t.co/ENdQE7tR5i
Spring is here! 💐☀️ As flowers bloom and days get brighter, JCMS brings a brand new issue with a fresh batch of articles! JCMS 63.3 delivers a wide variety of research articles and open-access content. Read them here https://t.co/PtPCBKwCiB.
It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of David Bordwell. Professor Bordwell’s contributions to film theory and history have been instrumental in shaping our understanding of cinema as an art form and storytelling practice.
I am so excited to share Volume 1, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies: Visualizing Jackson! This issue features articles by @KellySuprenant, @emilynaserhall, @HauntedKevin, and Tyler M. Dick, as well as a review by Lisa Kröger.
Check it out here: https://t.co/wIQcWozPBe
The Haunting of Hill House secured Shirley Jackson’s place as an icon of gothic horror
From the new @Ariz_Quarterly, Emily Naser-Hall studies Jackson’s use of gothic conventions to illuminate the quotidian horrors of women in the American midcentury
https://t.co/C0FyHM82xj
Today! @emilynaserhall digs into our relationship with the past as represented in 'Landlocked.'
"This lean debut speaks to a kind of technological singularity, a phenomenon never to be replicated: the fascination with preserving life ... on celluloid."
https://t.co/cN5CpJyCZP
From the incisive works of bell hooks to the narratives of Wendell Berry and Hunter S. Thompson, Kentucky is steeped in literary history. Check out some amazing lit mags in Kentucky below!
Read more: https://t.co/XjMHBnarNV
@JonathanJanz Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville is a former tuberculosis hospital that’s known for paranormal occurrences. Their haunted history tours are so thorough and sensitive, and just all-around fascinating. And if you’re in Louisville, you can hit the Baxter Avenue Morgue too!
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the @WCUEnglish faculty as an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in August! I am forever grateful to the many people who made all of this possible, especially the most incredible cohort I could have ever hoped for
So excited to share that my Short Cuts piece "Cinderella on the Homestead: Labor Nostalgia in I Love Lucy" is now live on
@NRFTSJournal It was such fun working on this tie-in piece to my forthcoming article on affective labor in midcentury sitcoms
https://t.co/WxTGJNtlD7