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Lisa Ellen

@lisa-ellen.bsky.social
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☠️editor. writer. faculty. genre film lover☠️

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Lisa Ellen @lisa-ellen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My article “Nostalgia, Satire, and Subcultural Capital at the Drive-In: Examining Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs as a Cultural Intermediary” is now #openaccess! Thanks for reading! #horror #thelastdrivein #mutantfam @horrorlex.bsky.social
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Nostalgia, satire, and subcultural capital at the drive-in: examining horror host Joe Bob Briggs as a cultural intermediary
This article explores how journalist, cult icon, and Shudder host Joe Bob Briggs has used visual and verbal rhetorical devices to become a fixture in genre subcultures. Created and performed by Joh...
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Lisa Ellen @lisa-ellen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Congrats to @coraliefargeat.bsky.social on the Oscar noms! A few years ago, I wrote about her incredible film Revenge. You can find “‘Women always have to put up a fucking fight’: Examining Anthropocene Feminism and Surveillance in Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge” in the this collection (Ed. Susan Flynn):
mcfarlandbooks.com
The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age - McFarland
The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age Essays on Voyeurism, Violence and Power Edited by Susan Flynn 978-1-4766-8099-6 978-1-4766-4187-4
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Lisa Ellen @lisa-ellen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
My chapter “A Brief Study of the History, Evolution, and Influence of America’s Most Iconic Horror Film Posters and Artists” can be found in this excellent new collection edited by Jamie L. McDaniel and Andrea Wood!
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Broadening the Horror Genre: From Gaming to Paratexts
This collection assembles a wide range of scholarship addressing the intersections, influences, and impacts of the horror genre’s proliferation across multiple forms of media. Covering film, televisio...
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The tendrils of horror grow everywhere. "Broadening the Horror Genre" has essays on #horror reaching across IMAX screens, into tabletop games & YouTube channels, even into Siskel & Ebert's reviews 👎👎. From Routledge, Eds. Jamie L. McDaniel / Andrea Wood www.routledge.com/Broadening-t...
On the left, the cover of the book "Broadening the Horror Genre: From Gaming to Paratexts," a generic abstract design of bright orange and thin white swirls.On the right, a promotional image for the made-for-IMAX movie HAUNTED CASTLE (2001), showing a photograph of a spooky stone castle overlaid by a bright blue ghostly image of something monstrous but indistinct.
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Lisa Ellen @lisa-ellen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m proud to have an article in the New Review of Film & Television Studies’ special dossier about Horror Fans & Audiences that’s part of the 22.3/Fall 2024 issue about Transnational Horror Media. Many thanks to editors @kte75.bsky.social & @jamesrendell.bsky.social! You can read my article here:
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Nostalgia, satire, and subcultural capital at the drive-in: examining horror host Joe Bob Briggs as a cultural intermediary
This article explores how journalist, cult icon, and Shudder host Joe Bob Briggs has used visual and verbal rhetorical devices to become a fixture in genre subcultures. Created and performed by Joh...
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