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Intellect is pleased to announce that Horror Studies 13.2 is out now!

Special issue: ‘1980s Horror Film Culture’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies

Aims & Scope

Horror Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the rigorous study of horror in all of its cultural and historical forms, from film and literature, music and dance, to fine art, photography and beyond. Seeking to advance the academic study of horror in theoretically and historically informed ways, Horror Studies is devoted to publishing high-quality articles and reviews relevant to its focus. With a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity, the journal seeks to foster fruitful dialogue on horror between a wide range of different critical and scholarly traditions.

Issue 13.2

Introduction

‘I have to return some videotapes’: The long 1980s and horror culture

SORCHA NÍ FHLAINN

Articles

Beyond the slasher film: History, seriousness and the problem of the children’s audience in the critical reception of big-budget horror in the late 1970s and early 1980s

MARK JANCOVICH

Halloween III: Season of the Witch: It’s time (again) for a re-evaluation

CIARÁN LEINSTER

Another man’s memories: Masculine trauma and Satanic Panic in The Believers (1987) and Angel Heart (1987)

CHARLOTTE GOUGH

‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps?)’: Critiquing representations of women throughout the 1980s in Fangoria magazine

LEXI WEBSTER

Towards a feminist historiography of horror cinema

ALISON PEIRSE

Sidney Furie’s The Entity: Horror and rape culture

VERNON SHETLEY