Halfway there
I've got an article in the 29th edition of Perforations, an online academic journal. The issue is here, and my contribution "I Exist on the Best Terms I Can: Joy Division's Closer and Hauntology" is part way down the page. I'm in some pretty august company. Not all of the links are working yet, but I'm getting on that.
Hi Ian; i really enjoyed this article. An essay of mine is also included in Perforations 29 (which is how i found your article, which is how i found yr blog); I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
It's called "Haunting Our Homes: Nightmares of Gentrification."
http://www.pd.org/~chea/Perforations/perf29/sm1.pdf
Thanks for reading...
Posted by
Sam J. Miller |
11:25 AM
Hi Sam,
I enjoyed your article quite a bit too. There's some very good insight in there, I think, although I personally would have brought out a bit more the way some of the film makers involved (Romero springs to mind) aren't interested so much in monsterizing the homeless/poor/working class so much as making those monsters the representation of a retaliation or what have you that is both richly deserved and just. Of course, the kind of othering impulse you talk about does happen in some (most?) horror/haunted house movies, but there are certainly times when the film maker (and audience?) are effectively on the side of the audience.
Glad you liked the Joy Division article - did you have a blog yourself?
Posted by
Ian |
5:47 PM
at last! Looking forward to reading this when I get home. Scott
Posted by
Anonymous |
11:52 AM
I was going to email you, I swear!
Posted by
Ian |
12:58 PM