Sometimes we just need a respite from terror.

Sex, performance, objectification, class, and the weaponization of desire in Ti West's X (2022) and John McNaughton's Wild Things (1998)

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “A Campy Summer Evening,” on a distinct style and its history, politics, and pleasures, with Stephanie A. Graves, lecturer in English at Middle Tennessee State Univ...

How Obsession uses visual rhetoric to turn passivity into horror.

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “A Campy Summer Evening,” on a distinct style and its history, politics, and pleasures, with Stephanie A. Graves, lecturer in English at Middle Tennessee State Univ...

Profs and Pints Nashville presents: “A Campy Summer Evening,” on a distinct style and its history, politics, and pleasures, with Stephanie A. Graves, lecturer in English at Middle Tennessee State Univ...

Or: how a sharp cultural satire became an extended luxury-brand commercial.

In which I defend a film I'm still not sure I even liked all that much.

It's that time of year when we like to get cozy with a warm beverage and watch some people in holiday peril! Here are some great films that fit that bill.

Teacher, writer, horror nerd, cat enthusiast.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he'...