Author: Douglas Rasmussen University of Saskatchewan Download PDF version Set in 1969 Los Angeles over the span of a few days in the months leading up to Sharon Tate’s murder on the night of August 9, 1969, Once Upon A...
Author: Rebekah Brammer Sarina Russo Institute Download PDF version One of the most striking artistic features of both The Handmaid’s Tale[1] adaptations, the film directed by Volker Schlöndorff (1990) and the Hulu ongoing television series (2017–present), is the use of...
Author: Alex Adams Independent Scholar Download PDF version In 2014, Legendary Pictures released Godzilla, the first entry in a still-expanding cinematic franchise of monster movies known to fans as the MonsterVerse. Ten years and three movies later, the MonsterVerse continues...
Author: Sotiris Petridis Hellenic Open University Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Since cinema usually narrates its stories through the camera, the structure of a typical film is in third person. Although cinema has a third-person narrative, there are some elements that...
Author: Lizbette Ocasio-Russe Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Download PDF version While the United States has come a long way since lawful slavery and colonial conquest, it’s no secret there are still hierarchical power structures that benefit some and...
Author: Katerina Psilopoulou Newnham College, University of Cambridge Download PDF version Whenever European directors attempt to capture the essence of America, the result can be either grotesque or revelatory, especially during volatile times like the counterculture movement of the...
Author: Felicia Cosey Jackson State University Download PDF version Horror filmmakers capitalize on the inevitable fear and dread that darkness elicits, from Alien’s (Scott 1979) Ripley walking down dark spaceship corridors to evade the monster, to Us’ (Peele 2019) Adelaide/Red...
Download PDF version William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897—July 06, 1962) is a key figure in the American literary canon who remains as such in our collective memory. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and his...
Download PDF version The birth of Wes Craven on August 2, 1939, ushered in a considerable new influence on the history of horror cinema. His legacy still pervades productions like Scream (MTV, VH1, 2015-2019) and Fear Street Trilogy (Netflix,...
Author: Dr. Karin Beeler University of Northern British Columbia Download PDF version TRAIN TO BUSAN AND PENINSULA In addition to paratextual English comments that juxtapose the Korean zombie content with pandemic reality, there are also critical responses in English that...
