Moving Image, Popular Media and Culture Seminar Series 2020

 

Kurja Polt 2019

I have just returned from Kurja Polt Festival where I presented a research paper about the slasher film alongside my fellow presenters Jamie Sexton and Alison Peirse. The event was organised and chaired by Russ Hunter. My thanks as always to Masa Pece and the Kurja Polt team for having me back. It was my third time at the festival, and it is always fantastic.

Here is a video of the complete talk (I was feeling really pretty ill during this, so probably not my finest hour):


A full gallery of photos from the event is available here. Some highlights below

Here is the summary of my talk, taken from the Kurja Polt zine:

[I think "dobra brada" is a compliment about my beard]

Here is a snap of me talking about slasher films on Slovenian National TV (on Osmi Dan)

CFP: Horror Cult and Exploitation Media ECR Event 3rd May 2019

Three online articles

January 2019 has been a month of blog-related activities for me

Here is a post I wrote for the Screening Sex blog about the recent BBFC consultation exercise, and their stance on films featuring sexual violence:

https://bit.ly/2RShgv7

Here is a post on Henry Jenkins’ blog in which I'm interviewed by Dr Billy Proctor:

https://bit.ly/2T9wZSJ
Part 2:
https://bit.ly/2MC7O9j

Finally, here is a blog post about the impact case study I’ve been involved in, which is led by Russ Hunter, and encompasses colleagues from across Film and Media at Northumbria

https://bit.ly/2AZSHSg

Call for Papers: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media II

Call for Presentations:

Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media II: 
A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers

Friday 4 May 2018, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

A collaborative event between the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Arts

PhD students and Early Career Researchers working in the field(s) of “horror, cult and exploitation” screen media, are invited to submit abstracts about their research to deliver at a workshop at Northumbria University on Friday 4 May 2018. The workshop – which follows on from a highly successful event last year – will take the format of a mini-symposium, and consist of three sessions, each made up of four speakers. Speakers will each deliver a 5-10 minute talk about their research to their peers and to a panel of academic experts from Northumbria’s Film and Television Research Group, providing a short introduction to their current project and identifying several questions for discussion. After each presentation, there will be an opportunity for the academic panel and other workshop participants to feedback to each speaker, and to ask follow-up questions.

The workshop is intended to be a small scale networking opportunity for scholars with shared research interests, and to provide a relatively informal opportunity for those newer to academia to engage in dialogue with more established researchers.
The event will close with a short presentation by James Campbell from Intellect Books, who will give advice about academic publishing (including converting a PhD thesis into a monograph).

The academic panel will comprise:
• Dr Russ Hunter (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-editor of Italian Horror Cinema)
• Dr Steve Jones (Head of Media, author of Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw, co-editor of Zombies and Sexuality)
• Dr James Leggott (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, author of Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror)
• Dr Sarah Ralph (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, co-author of Alien Audiences: Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie)
• Dr Jamie Sexton (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, co-author of Cult Film: An Introduction, founding series co-editor of Cultographies)
• Dr Johnny Walker (Senior Lecturer in Media, author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society and co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series)

Applicants are reminded that there are only twelve spaces available. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

Please submit a 250 word summary of your project and a 50-100 word bio to the organiser, Dr Johnny Walker (johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk), by Friday 30 March 2018. Applicants will be notified of the outcome the following week.

Horror Lab Episode 3: Women in Horror and Prevenge

Episode 3 of the Horror Lab podcast is now available

- Twitter: @The_HorrorLab
- iTunes: https://goo.gl/ZXcpvu
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- Stitcher: https://goo.gl/oJuUBa
- Pippa: https://goo.gl/MdegAT
- Podomatic: https://goo.gl/vXCKzC

In this episode we discuss women in horror with our in-studio guest Dr Alison Peirse (University of York) and our interview guest Kat Ellinger (Editor-in-Chief of Diabolique magazine). We also consider the film Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016).

Horror Lab Autopsy on "Post-Horror"

On 6th July 2017, The Guardian newspaper published an article entitled "How Post-Horror Movies are Taking Over Cinema". The article's author (Steve Rose) claimed that a new subgenre is forming: "post-horror". We discuss the notion of "post-horror" with Nia Edwards-Behi (@stonecypher) who is the co-director of the Abertoir Film Festival and a regular contributor to Warped Perspective.

Listen/subscribe on:

• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-horror-lab/id1236298617

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• Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=140450

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This is the first of a series of shorter episodes - Autopsies - in which we interview specialists about current events and issues in horror.

The Horror Lab Episode 2: Bride of Frankenstein and 'the Gothic'

Episode 2 of our podcast The Horror Lab is now live [..."it's ALIVE!!"] 

Listen/subscribe on:

• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-horror-lab/id1236298617
• Podomatic: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/steve-jones
• Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=140450
• RSS: https://feed.pippa.io/public/shows/horrorlab

In this episode, we discuss Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935), we interview Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) about "the Gothic", and Russ discusses his work on the Italian lost film The Monster of Frankenstein (Eugenio Testa, 1921).

The Horror Lab Episode 1: Candyman and 90s Horror

The first episode of our new podcast - The Horror Lab -  is available to stream/download

Download directly in MP3 format here (right click>'save as').

Also available on iTunes here

The Horror Lab is a podcast recorded at Northumbria University, hosted by myself, Johnny Walker and Russ Hunter. The podcast explores key moments in horror, past and present. 

In this episode, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992), examining the film's representations of race and place, before  discussing 90s horror more broadly.

On the next episode, we will be discussing Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) and the relationship between horror and the Gothic. 

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the show, get in touch with us on Twitter @The_HorrorLab 

We are going to include interviews in future episodes, so if you are a researcher working in the area and would like to participate in the show, drop us a line.

The RSS feed for the podcast is available here.