Hayley Louise Charlesworth
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Derek Johnston deposited Exploring Television Seasonality on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
This paper will consider the continued significance of television seasonality, even in the era of on-demand and timeshifting. It will draw upon my own research into seasonality and genre, as well as the research of other academics, including that from the special issue of the Journal of Popular Television and the subsequent dossier on Christmas…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Sublime Horror of the English Countryside on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago
This paper will explore the use of the English landscape as a source of sublime horror, particularly through a shift in perception from idyllic to ominous. Where Peter Hutchings has indicated the importance of the ‘uncanny landscape’ as a fairly stable location for wrestling with modernity, this chapter will investigate those moments of slippage…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Jon Garrad's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
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Derek Johnston's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months ago
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
A central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Jon Garrad deposited Bleeding Genre Dry: archetypes, stereotypes, and White Wolf’s Vampire games in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoRoleplaying games have always leaned heavily on their literary sources. System mechanics and character creation options have been tooled toward evoking genre types and aesthetics ever since the first “Vancian wizard” memorised a spell before setting out to adventure.
Naturally, when RPGs turned toward the Gothic, they did the same thing: rif…[Read more]
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Jon Garrad's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Jon Garrad deposited Bleeding Genre Dry: archetypes, stereotypes, and White Wolf’s Vampire games on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Roleplaying games have always leaned heavily on their literary sources. System mechanics and character creation options have been tooled toward evoking genre types and aesthetics ever since the first “Vancian wizard” memorised a spell before setting out to adventure.
Naturally, when RPGs turned toward the Gothic, they did the same thing: rif…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Disrupting the Canon: High Culture, Low Brow, and the Space In Between in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago<p style=”text-align: left;”>Stony Brook University
31st Annual English Graduate Conference
March 1st, 2019</p>
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Disrupting the Canon: High Culture, Low Brow, and the Space In Between</p>
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jonathan W. Gray
John Jay College of Criminal Justice</p>What is the difference…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoGreat, thanks! I’ll email you shortly.
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello all,
For those of you experiencing the start of the fall semester, I hope it’s going well!
I wanted to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in being the focus of an upcoming HC Team blog post. I would love to interview someone who participated in the HC Summer Camp about the site they created as part of the camp’s challenges. Is…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Understanding History and Causality through the Television Ghost Story in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper considers the ways in which the television ghost story serves to support understanding and interpretations of history, and particularly an understanding of causality. As Helen Wheatley has identified, the typical detailed period settings of the television Gothic operate as a form of ‘dark heritage’ drama, where, instead of the att…[Read more]
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