TOPICS DISCUSSED:
- How she became enthralled with horror in childhood reading The Brother’s Grimm
- Horror can act as a buffer or escapism from the actual horror in real life
- The adrenaline rush of horror!
- Gothic literature and the Marquis de Sade – “the necessary fruit of revolutionary tremors”
- Horror “shakes us awake”!
- The Momo Challenge – biggest hoax of the 21st century
- Irish people’s fascination with horror connected to our long literary history with Gothic literature (Sheridan LeFanu, Bram Stoker) and our history of storytelling
- Origins of our celebration of Samhain / Halloween
- Horror as a form of cultural commentary
- ‘Hauntology’ – Jacques Derrida … “mourning a future that will never happen” ...refers to the haunting image of fashion mannequins dressed for a 2020 summer season that never happened
- Fashion & clothing as a trope used in horror movies e.g. ‘The Final Girl’
- “What’s the scariest film of all time?!” … any movie that replicates our own fears
- Throughout history, horror does really well in times of political and social unrest
- Cancel Culture & Censorship – HBO pulling iconic movie Gone with the Wind on the basis of racism
- Media effects, moral panics and censorship – essentially ghost stories
- Upcoming publication ‘The Myth of Harm’ with Bloomsbury Publisher – 100 years of horror
- 1990s Jamie Bolger murder case connect with Child’s Play movie character Chucky – a ghost story we in society tell ourselves to protect ourselves from the horror of the truth
- Thanksgiving – perceivably a horrific moment in history yet is continually celebrated in the US
- Children as the 'emotional button' to ‘justify’ cancel culture/censorship/media blame
- Video Nasty Era with the rise of VHS video culture: late 1970s-1984
LINKS TO TOPICS MENTIONED:
Marquis de Sade: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-marquis-de-sade-180953980/
Sheridan LeFanu: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sheridan-Le-Fanu
Bram Stoker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker
Irish storyteller, Eddie Lenihan: https://eddielenihan.weebly.com/
Irish Times article observing ‘hauntology’ playing out in S/S 2020 fashion season: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/fashion/summer-dresses-is-there-not-still-room-for-a-little-joy-1.4264980#.X4N0cJ_mdsQ.mailto
Robert Egger’s The VVitch movie recommendation: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_witch_2016
Dr Sarah Cleary’s Deadly Doses Podcast: https://spoti.fi/34ZQYKY
Sunday Business Post article on censorship: https://www.businesspost.ie/life-arts/all-in-the-frame-why-we-shouldnt-cancel-problematic-art-6d38686d
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