In this five-week course, five different instructors focus on issues related to women’s and gender issues in horror. Topics include horror films by female directors, feminist horror, feminist readings of horror, and female performances of abjection in horror. Films include CARRIE (Brian De Palma, 1976), TÉSIS (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996), JENNIFER’S BODY (Karyn Kusama, 2009), THE BABADOOK (Jennifer Kent, 2014), and EVOLUTION (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015).
Tuesday nights, 7-10pm
17 October – Kristopher Woofter, on CARRIE (1976)
24 October – Alanna Thain, on EVOLUTION
31 October – Halloween Break
7 November – Rosanna Maule, on TÉSIS
14 November – Karen Herland, on THE BABADOOK
21 November – Anne Golden, on JENNIFER’S BODY
Alanna Thain teaches cultural studies and world cinemas, and also directs the Moving Image Research Laboratory (mirl.lab.mcgill.ca) at McGill University, where at least part of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981) was filmed (most of the film was filmed at Concordia University). She would like to confirm that she is still recovering from watching that film while unsupervised at a very young age, and is still waiting to be able to watch it again. Her horror specialty is the work of David Lynch. She also runs a bike powered mobile cinema project, Cinema out of the Box, and collaborated with the Volatile Den for a cemetery screening last summer (https://www.facebook.com/mobilecinemamontreal).
