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“There Is Much to Be Learned from Beasts”: Science and Magic in Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
When I was about 7 or 8, I snuck downstairs one October…
“The Guy Sure Looks Like Plant Food to Me!”: Eating the Poor in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Updated September 26, 2022 “On the Twenty-Third Day of the Month of…
“Our Lives Are One Masked Ball”: Monsters, Masks, and the Art of Imitation in The Phantom of the Opera Franchise
“If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made…
Damnation as Infection: Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil’s Carnival
Repo! the Genetic Opera (2008) was arguably my first horror musical, or…
“That’s the Hell of It!”: Allegory, Satire, and Musical Horror in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Revised June 2021, Phantom of the Opera month. We see a stage…
“The Tyranny of an Object”: Technology and Representation in Blade Runner (1982) and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”
“The tyranny of an object… it doesn’t know I exist”…
“Shall I Speak for Thee?”: The Legacy of Philomela, Shakespeare’s Lavinia, and Julie Taymor’s Titus (1999)
CW (Content Warning): Rape and ViolenceThis article deals with issues of extreme…
“What’s To Come is Still Unsure”: The Filmic Detail in Twelfth Night (1996)
Twelfth Night is one of the most frequently performed Shakespeare plays because…
“A Rose by Any Other Name”: Shakespeare and Film
Intro for the Week Shakespeare remains an inescapable literary force, one which…