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, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books buying generic cialis mexico rx including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).