Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
This 2014 collection of short horror stories shows a prolific author experimenting with different tropes and genres to find wonder in making sense of the world. We discuss Jones’s unique writing process to understand the importance he gives horror.
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- Book Review: After the People Lights Have Gone Off – Author Stephen Graham Jones
- After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
- Stephen Graham Jones ~ After the People Lights Have Gone Off
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- Interview: Stephen Graham Jones
- Stephen Graham Jones on writing horror and its inverse, romance
- Interview: Stephen Graham Jones on The Weird
- One Month of Reading Stephen Graham Jones: A Primer
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- In Convo With Stephen Graham Jones
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This 1985 fantasy film is remembered fondly by our generation, but may not hold up under re-examination. We look at the studio process it was made under, while thinking about how it tries to subvert our expectations of fairy tales.
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- 20 Crazy Details Behind The Making Of Ladyhawke
- History, Fantasy, and Weird Armor: Ladyhawke
- Is Ladyhawke the Best Fairy Tale of Them All?
- The Hawk, the Wolf, and the Mouse: Tracing the Gendered other in Richard Donner’s Ladyhawke
- In Defense of ‘Ladyhawke’
- Lessons Every Filmmaker Can Learn From Richard Donner
- The Wolf, the Hawk and the Avant-garde Musician: Interview with Andrew Powell
This 1998 horror manga depicts a Japanese town that plunges into chaos in the face of the symbolic spiral. We look at how Ito conceived Uzumaki, while struggling with big philosophical ideas like nihilism, rationalism and routine, meticulous dread in the face of our cosmic insignificance.
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- The Junji Ito Interview: A conversation with the creator of Uzumaki
- Black illumination: the unhuman world of Junji Ito
- The Horrific Mechanations of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki
- Jason Thompson's House of 1000 Manga - Uzumaki
- Uzumaki: Junji Ito’s Phenomenal Art and Lackluster Storytelling
- Into the Spiral: A Conversation with Japanese Horror Maestro Junji Ito
- The Grotesque Tales of Junji Ito — Part 3: Uzumaki
- “Uzumaki” Is a Horror Classic That Will Leave You Spinning
- THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: THOUGHTS ON LOVECRAFTIAN SPIRALITY AND ITO’S UZUMAKI
- INTERVIEW: THE LEGENDARY JUNJI ITO TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW ANIME COLLECTION AND MORE
This 2018 spy thriller is praised for its humor and subversion by critics and audiences alike. We discuss how it represents female and queer identities without pinning down either as templates or tropes.
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- ‘It’s anarchic’: the cast of Killing Eve on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s killer thriller
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge Twists the Spy Genre With BBC America’s Thriller ‘Killing Eve’
- ‘Killing Eve’ Showrunner: ‘All Obsession Is Sexual’
- All About Killing Eve: The BBC spy drama that's already a US hit
- Killing Eve and the Riddle of Why Women Kill
- The Queer Ambiguity of ‘Killing Eve’
- ‘Killing Eve’: TV’s Newest Assassin Subverts Storytelling Cliches, Which Makes Her Scary as Hell
- Feminist thriller "Killing Eve" has proven a perfect show for the #MeToo era
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