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Monstrum

Volume 6, Number 1, June 2023

We dedicate this issue of Monstrum to the memory of Denis Saltykov.

Table of contents (22 articles)

FEATURE ESSAYS

  1. The Cacophonic Politics of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”

    Michael J. Blouin

    pp. 5–27

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  2. The Imagination of Deterioration: Human Exceptionalism, Climate Change, and the Weird Eco-Horror of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

    M. Keith Booker

    pp. 28–45

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  3. “The Finest Examples of Motion Picture Art”: Prestige, Stardom and Gender in the Critical Reception of Silent and Early Sound Horror

    Shane Brown and Mark Jancovich

    pp. 46–75

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  4. The Affective Contours and Configurations of Dread: Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    Marcus Prasad

    pp. 76–94

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  5. The Uncanny Changes Hands: Promoting and Managing Hitchcock’s Psycho on American Television

    Alex Remington

    pp. 95–108

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  6. A Theory of the Gag: Comedic Mechanisms in Exploitation Film Form

    Kate J. Russell

    pp. 109–127

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DOSSIER. Russian, Belarusian, and Sakha Horror

  1. Edited by Eva Ivanilova and Denis Saltykov

  1. Russian, Belarusian, and Sakha Horror: An Introductory Note

    Eva Ivanilova

    pp. 129–131

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  2. Horror Cinema in Belarus: An Unlikely Case Study

    Volha Isakava

    pp. 132–161

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  3. Born Under a Bad Sign: Spice Boyz and Belarusian Horror

    Adam Lowenstein

    pp. 162–166

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  4. The Specter of Opacity: Sakha Indigenous Voice in the Ethnic Horror Film Ich-chi (2021)

    Eva Ivanilova and Neepa Majumdar

    pp. 167–188

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DOSSIER. Russian Horror Criticism in Translation

  1. Selected by Denis Saltykov, Translated by Felix Helbing

  1. The Girl Spells Trouble

    Yulia Toman

    pp. 189–194

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  2. Fear, Russian Style: What’s Wrong With Russian Horror?

    Dmitrii Sokolov

    pp. 195–199

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  3. The Dead Among Us: Russian Films on the Zombie Apocalypse

    Olga Artemeva

    pp. 200–205

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  4. “Ideas can be found in your nightmares”: An Interview with Vladislav Severtsev, Chief Producer of Russian Horror

    Marat Shabaev

    pp. 206–212

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SPECIAL FEATURE

  1. Horror Reverie 2: An Online Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of The Exorcist: Introduction: Exorcising The Exorcist

    Marcus Prasad

    pp. 213–218

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STUDENT FORUM. The 2022-2023 Monstrum Student Essay Prize Winner

  1. A Different Kind of Something: The Human Drive Towards Self-Obliteration in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina and Annihilation

    Tristan Boisvert-Larouche

    pp. 219–226

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REVIEWS

  1. Meta in Film and Television Series by David Roche, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 376 pp., $125 USD (h/c)

    Erin Giannini

    pp. 227–229

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  2. The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child by Sarah Cleary, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 296 pp., $150 USD (h/c)

    Erin Giannini

    pp. 230–233

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  3. Supernatural: A History of Television’s Unearthly Road Trip by Erin Giannini, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, 238pp., $34 USD (h/c)

    Rebecca Stone Gordon

    pp. 234–238

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APPENDIX: HORROR REVERIE 2 TRANSCRIPTS

  1. Panel 1 – Historical and Other Contexts

    pp. 239–261

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  2. Panel 2 – Interviews with Eileen Dietz and Alexandre O. Philippe

    pp. 262–279

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  3. Panel 3 – Paratexts and Legacy

    pp. 280–301

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