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Scott Peeples is a professor of literature and has written three books on Edgar Allan Poe and has co-authored a handbook on Poe. We spoke about his latest book on Poe and his experiences in four major cities Poe lived in. Edgar Allan Poe and the City Princeton University Press, 2020
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David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of numerous books including a recent one on modern horror films. We spoke about the book and recent horror films. Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
0:48 – David talks about why he enjoys horror films and why he wrote this book.
2:36 – David talks about the old horror movies he watched.
4:38 – David talks about examining horror films from 2013 and 2014.
6:53 – David talks about the motivations of the film makers in making new types of horror.
9:19 – David talks about how streaming has affected horror films.
12:16 – David talks about anthology horror films.
13:12 – David talks about horror video games.
14:10 – David talks about the budgets of these films.
16:13 – David compares low budget sci-fi with other low budget indie films.
17:58 – David talks about what he focuses on in the book.
23:42 – David talks about whether any of these films are sci-fi or historical.
25:16 – David talks about the countries these films are made in.
25:42 – David talks about cultural elevation of these films.
27:51 – David talks about these films and literary source material.
31:14 – David talks the use of monsters in these films.
34:07 – David talks about whether these horror movies are connected to the wars on terror.
36:27 – David talks about horror and politics.
37:08 – David talks about the focus of the book.
38:32 – David talks about the critics he looked at.
39:55 – David talks about the movies he had to watch. He talks about enjoying occult films.
41:34 – David talks about the stark divide about how good people thought the movies were.
43:03 – David talks about major studios trying to copy these films.
44:30 – David talks about the movie “Us”.
46:42 – David talks about the different groups defining horror.
47:16 – David talks about fans arguing about films.
48:33 – David talks about subversive horror films.
50:36 – David talks about new movies that have come out.
52:15 – David talks about Parasite.
53:08 – David talks about the meaning
56:00 – SPOILER for Get Out – 57:04
57:04 David talks about the studios putting out these films.
1:01:31 – David can be found at david-church.com
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Host: Cris Alvarez
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Suparno Banerjee has been a life long fan of science fiction. He studied science fiction and now teaches it as an associate professor of English at Texas State University. He recently wrote a book on the development of Indian science fiction. We discussed the book and his science fiction interests. Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (University of Wales Press, 2021)
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