Thank you to everyone who attended the Miskatonic New York October 2022 class. Please find below instructor Kelly Boner’s bibliography and filmography from the lecture.
FILMS
- Detour (1945)
- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
- The Twilight Zone: “Night Call” (1964)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Black Sabbath (1963)
- Blood and Black Lace (1964)
- The Sitter (1977)
- When a Stranger Calls (1979)
- Black Christmas (1974)
- The Severed Arm (1973)
- Don’t Hang Up AKA Don’t Answer the Door (1974)
- Are You In the House Alone? (1978)
- Halloween (1978)
- Someone’s Watching Me (1978)
- I Saw What You Did (1965 and 1988)
- Lisa (1990)
- Disconnected (1984)
- Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- One Missed Call (2003)
- The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
- Personal Shopper (2016)
- Sisters (1972)
- Ringu (1998)
- The Ring (2002)
- Phone (2002)
- Scream (1996)
- Scream (2022)
- Shook (2021)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- All American Rejects, Music Video for Dirty Little Secret
- Kenneth Lipartito, “When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920”, for the American Historical Review 1994 https://doi.org/10.2307/
2168770 - Michele Martin, “The Making of the Perfect Operator”, from Hello, Central?: Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems https://www.jstor.org/stable/
j.ctt9qf4b0 - Michel Chion, “The Voice in Cinema” http://cup.columbia.edu/book/
the-voice-in-cinema/ 9780231108232 - Ned Schantz, “Telephonic Film” for Film Quarterly, 2003 https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.
2003.56.4.23 - Claude S Fischer, “Gender and the Residential Telephone, 1890-1940: Technologies of Sociability for Sociological Forum” 1988 https://www.jstor.org/stable/
684365 - Morten Thomsen, “Body, Telephone, Voice: Black Christmas (1974) and Monstrous Cinema”, 2021 https://www.sciendo.com/
article/10.2478/ausfm-2021- 0012 - Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women
- “History of the Princess Telephone”, IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-
1959-att-discovered-there-was- a-market-for-a-ladys-phone - “Teen-Age Girls: The Live in a Wonderful World All Their Own”, Life Magazine 1944 https://books.google.com/
books?id=10EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA91& source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v= onepage&q&f=false - “The Teen-Age Telephone Tie-Up”, Life Magazine, 1956 https://books.google.com/
books?id=OE8EAAAAMBAJ&pg= PA102&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2# v=onepage&q&f=false - John Berger, “Ways of Seeing”, 1972 https://www.ways-of-seeing.
com/ - Charles Spiteri, “Isolation and Subjugation: the Telephone in Slasher Film”, 2004 http://www.sensesofcinema.com/
2004/beyond-the-grave-of- genre/telephone_slasher_film/ - Claire Donner, “Disconnected + Personal Shopper” https://anhed-nia.tumblr.com/
post/633715605649899520/ blogtober-1030-1031-it-aint- over-yet - Dead Signal: A History of Horror the Telephone (Video Essay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ouiGBdiGPU0 - Carol Clover, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, Film Quarterly 1991 https://www.jstor.org/stable/
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