Author Archive for: ‘Craig Martin’

Dominic Lennard Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film State University of New York Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781 4384 5328 6 US$24.95 (pb) 195pp (review copy supplied by SUNY Press) Andrew Scahill notes in his 2010 essay on The Exorcist (1973), wittily titled “Demons Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, that the child-as-monster in horror film has …

Scott Balcerzak, Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8143-3965-7 US$29.95 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) Scott Balcerzak’s Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity continues the tradition of queer scholarship committed to re-reading mainstream cultural texts. As his book title suggests, his study focuses …

Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. ISBN:0 52285 172 X Au$34.95 (pb) 200pp (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University Press) In his essay on the uncanny, Freud describes this phenomenon as an experience of terror or dread. He argues that all such experiences originate with the figure of the paternal castrator, who represents the threat of dismemberment …

Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War. Baltimore: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-55849-612-5 US$29.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by University of Massachusetts Press http://www.umass.edu/umpress/about.html) In the forty-plus years that the Cold War dominated international politics, cinema became party to what Tony Shaw describes as “the longest of all national cinematic propaganda wars” (p. 2). Shaw’s meticulously researched book, Hollywood’s Cold …