Tag Archive | "horror"
Leslie Vernon Deconstructs the Slasher
I’d seen Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon a while ago, but had a chance to watch it again recently. I enjoyed this slasher satire for many of the same reasons I enjoyed the first Scream: both are meta-slasher films that use humor to deconstruct the genre while still serving as examples of [...]
Continue reading...Defining Horror – Noël Carroll
Friday, May 28, 2010
One of the seminal theoretical works on horror is Noël Carroll’s The Philosophy of Horror.1 In this work, Carroll explores answers to two major questions related to the genre: Why are we disturbed by fictions?2 And why do we seek out fictions that disturb us? Through the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and literary theory, Carroll [...]
Continue reading...Lovecraft is Missing
Thursday, September 3, 2009
How did I not know about this earlier? A mystery webcomic that asks: what if Lovecraft’s stories were real? Creator Larry Latham has been at work on this since October 1, 2008. Here’s the first page.
Continue reading...Lovecraft Rising
Friday, October 31, 2008
This is a bibliographic essay that surveys the scholarship and reception of H. P. Lovecraft’s work from 1990 to 2004. More background information about this essay can be found in this post. Lovecraft Rising – Upload a Document to Scribd
Continue reading...Of Lovecraft and Bibliographies
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Setup: Part One One of the requirements for my Masters in English1 was the standard scholarly research course. The major assignment of the course was to create a bibliography on a subject or author and then compose a bibliographic essay from the findings. I chose to research H. P. Lovecraft because I’d been interested in [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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Friday, August 27, 2010
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