Historicizing Slashers

Shannon Skelton Announcement
Location
Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Fields
Fine Arts, Film and Film History, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Sexuality Studies, Popular Culture Studies

 

Historicizing Slashers

PCA/ACA National Conference

April 15-18, 2020

Philadelphia, PA, USA

https://pcaaca.org/

On the eve of Friday the 13th celebrating its 40th anniversary, the concept of the “slasher” and the “slasher film” remains a topic of debate and discourse among horror scholars and fear film aficionados.

Though theorized and analyzed consistently for the past 30 years, slasher films possess a complex history, one that contains controversy (such as graphic violence, misogyny and the promotion of seemingly socially conservative “morals”), a labyrinthine origin and genealogy as well as alternating and shifting periods of popularity.

This panel looks toward the concepts of “Historicizing” and “History” – in all their iterations and understandings - to investigate the cultural and cinematic significance of this (sub/non) genre. This panel will explore the meanings, connotations, dynamics, systems and processes of “Historicizing” and “History” within - and surrounding – “slashers.” This can include personal histories, analytical approaches, archival projects, case studies, theoretical explorations as well as other configurations.

Possible Topics/Approaches Include:

Marketing and Visual Culture

Gender

Audience Reception

Class

Archival Projects

Personal History

Case Studies

Nostalgia

Archive

Queer Theory

Affect

Hauntology

Graphic Violence

Genre Theory

Class

Allusion/Quotation

Race/Ethnicity

Fan Communities/Fan Production

Transmedial Iterations

Critical Theory

Pedagogy

Please send an abstract, proposal or short description (100 words or less) of your project to Shannon Blake Skelton (sbskelton@ksu.edu) by October 27th, 2019 at 11pm (Central Standard).

 

 

Contact Information

Shannon Blake Skelton at sbskelton@ksu.edu

Contact Email
sbskelton@ksu.edu