Bustin' makes me feel... bad? What was meant to be an "easy, breezy, beautiful" 80s night became a two-part "cold hard research" episode. In part one, Quest and Annabelle give their first impressions of Ghostbusters (1984). They also unpack the "totemic nostalgia" of the original franchise and explore the film through the lens of the monstrous-feminine and possession.

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Bibliography

“Opening Up” in Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol Clover

“Immigrants as aliens in the Ghostbusters films” by Zoila Clark, in Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

“The Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection” by Barbara Creed

“Busters Behind the Ghosts” by Joanna Lipari, in Film Comment

“‘Now That I Have It, I Don’t Want It’: Vocation and Obligation in Contemporary Hollywood Ghost Films” by James A. Miller, in Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Culture

THE HORROR OF NOSTALGIA: CHASING GHOSTS IN THE HOLLOW KIND by Andy Davidson

“Bitches Ain’t Gonna Hunt No Ghosts”: Totemic Nostalgia, Toxic Fandom and the Ghostbusters Platonic by William Proctor in Palabra Clave.