Good Mourning, Nancy Podcast

We're back! To kick off season 6, we'll be giving you a run down on the birth of Spiritualism and Feminism in New York!

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Additional Links:

Interview with Grim Magazine (page 49):

https://anatomyofascream.wordpress.com/2019/06/01/getgrim-grim-no-5-living-dead-girls/

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs:

https://www.amazon.com/Incidents-Life-Slave-Harriet-Jacobs/dp/194564432X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Linda+brent&qid=1560203461&s=gateway&sr=8-1Thanks to

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Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from out sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com

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Books for Resource:

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition 2nd Edition by Ann Braude

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith

How Thin the Veil!: 150 Years of Spiritualism by Linda Pendleton

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Online Articles:

When Women Channeled the Dead to be Heard by Grant Shreve

https://daily.jstor.org/when-women-channeled-the-dead-to-be-heard/

Feminism and Spiritualism – Changing Humanity Together by Charles Cork Lucas

http://brockwaychurch.com/feminism-and-spiritualism-changing-humanity-together/

Spiritualism and the Rise of the Feminist Movement by by Chris Parizo

http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2011/07/spiritualism-and-the-rise-of-the-feminist-movement/

Merging Spirituality with Feminism by Meg Adamson

https://medium.com/thrive-global/spirituality-and-feminism-16c70497f972

Is your Spirituality Intersectional? By Toshia Shaw

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-your-spirituality-intersectional_b_59128035e4b0e070cad70a05

Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America's Female Spiritualists By Dianca London Potts

https://www.shondaland.com/live/a23652668/legacy-of-spiritualists/

Spiritualism, Science, and the Mysterious Madame Blavatsky By: Matthew Wills

https://daily.jstor.org/spiritualism-science-and-the-mysterious-madame-blavatsky/

The Spiritualist Medium: A Study of Female Professionalism in Victorian America

Author(s): R. Laurence Moore. Source: American Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1975), pp. 200-221. Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2712342. Accessed: 02-06-2019 17:45 UTC

The Surprising Historical Significance of Fortune-Telling by Cody Delistraty

https://daily.jstor.org/surprising-historical-significance-fortune-telling/

History, Art, and Archives: The Women’s Rights Movement

https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/

It's the last episode of season 5! It's Mario Bava's Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to the duality of women, monstrous love, blurred lines between good & evil, and The Spectral Mother.

This episode contains a quote concerning date rape. Listener discretion is advised.

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Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee,com

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Resources:

Black Sunday; (aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

Bava, Mario 1960; France, Italy; 83 min; B&W; Horror P: Massimo de Rita; W: Mario Bava, Ennio de Concini, Mario Serandrei; C: Ubaldo Terzano, Mario Bava; E: Mario Serandrei; M: Robert Nicolosi Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani

Lucas, Tim Fangoria Magazine, #42, pgs. 20-24, "Terror Pioneer", article on Bava's career.

McGee, Mark Thomas Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-7864-0137-0

Lucas, Tim Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Video Watchdog, 2007. ISBN 0-9633756-1-X

Erickson, Glenn. "Censorship For A Celebrated Horror Film: BLACK SUNDAY". DVD Savant. Retrieved 2006-06-29.

Online Articles:

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/430%7C0/Black-Sunday.html

http://www.vaultofthoughts.com/2018/06/11/barbara-steele/

https://mannysbookofshadows.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/barbara-steele-queen-of-the-italian-gothic-film/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/cteq/black_sunday/

An Englishman’s Guide to Italian Gothic: Black Sunday (1960) by Rob Talbot

https://diaboliquemagazine.com/an-englishmans-guide-to-italian-gothic-black-sunday-1960/

https://www.popmatters.com/164732-black-sunday-2495802585.html

Bella Donna: Lilith, Gaia, and the Spectral Mother in Mario Bava’s Black Sunday by Steve Johnson

https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-content/cache/all/bella-donna-lilith-gaia-spectral-mother-mario-bavas-black-sunday/#.XJLE_hNKiqA

The Power In Owning Our Duality: Give Yourself Permission to Be Both Soft & Strong BY CHELCEE JOHNS

http://www.blackgirlinom.com/publication-articles/the-power-in-owning-our-duality-we-are-both-soft-strong-chelcee-johns

The Duality of Women: Warrior and Goddess by Selena Madden

https://selenamadden.com/2015/04/17/the-duality-of-women-warrior-and-goddess/

The "Duality" of Women By Erica Amdal

https://www.hercampus.com/school/augustana/duality-women

Shadow Self: Embracing Your Inner Darkness by MATEO SOL

https://lonerwolf.com/shadow-self/

Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity (By Marilyn Francus)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-our-way/201711/why-do-people-hate-smart-women

Video Essays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuAQXGT0VI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXG7f_PvSWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQDUJaT-UQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPqMbtafYm0

We'll tear your soul apart! Just kidding... but this episode might! This week your favorite ghouls will be discussing Clive Barker's HELLRAISER! Topics covered: The women of Hellraiser, domestic horror, the symbolism of the Lament Configuration, flower imagery, and dislocating eroticism.

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com

Resources:

Spot the movie subliminal - HELLRAISER (engineer tunnel chase scene)by Collative Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpaMwAe09A

Open to Question - Clive Barker (12/8/1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqaKgrbjfQ

"Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice" By Linda Badley

Scary! in an Era of "Positive Images" for Gays and Lesbians, Can Queer Characters Still Get Chopped Up in Horror Movies? By Sean Abley

CLIVE BARKER’S HELLRAISER MYTHOLOGY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/114/RUG01-001414114_2010_0001_AC.pdf

How we made Hellraiser: Interviews by Phil Hoad

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/30/how-we-made-hellraiser-horror-film-pinhead-clive-barker

Bloody Bodily Horrors: Clive Barker’s Hellraiser & AIDS by Javier Martín-Párraga http://www.uco.es/users/javier.martin/www.uco.es_users_javier.martin/Current_3_files/bloody%20Bodily.pdf

Shudders of Pleasure: The Story of Hellraiser

https://lwlies.com/articles/shudders-of-pleasure-the-story-of-hellraiser/

‘What a woman will do for a good f*ck’ – Julia Cotton’s sexual agency in Hellraiser by Katie Welsh

https://lwlies.com/articles/hellraiser-julia-cotton-sexual-agency/

Women Of Horror Series: “Hellraiser” by Kelcie Mattson

https://medium.com/@wewillbethestars/women-of-horror-series-hellraiser-7e2d822475a5

31 Days of Feminist Horror Films: The Stepfather & Hellraiser by Katie Hagen

https://blog.blcklst.com/31-days-of-feminist-horror-films-the-stepfather-hellraiser-5d88b50b82b5

Clive Barker is the LGBT* and Feminist Friendly Monarch of Horror

https://powderroom.kinja.com/clive-barker-is-the-lgbt-and-feminist-friendly-monarch-1705767112

CELEBRATING A BROADER PICTURE OF WOMEN IN HORROR

http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/celebrating-a-broader-picture-of-women-in-horror/

Hell Hath No Fury

http://theculturalgutter.com/horror/hell-hath-no-fury.html

12 Sharp Facts About Hellraiser BY GARIN PIRNIA

http://mentalfloss.com/article/503748/12-sharp-facts-about-hellraiser

Transcendence: the Ultimate Goal - A Hellraiser Review by Nizin Lopez

http://nizinrafaellopez.blogspot.com/2013/07/review-of-hellraiser-movies-by-mr-nizin.html

Satanic Panic: How British Agents Stoked Supernatural Fears in Trouble by Henry McDonald

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/09/satanic-panic-british-agents-stoked-fears-troubles

**This episode was recorded remotely**

Get outta here, Roger Ebert! Alien (1979) is an awesome film! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Ridley Scott's sophomore masterpiece in sci-fi and terror! Discussions include but are not limited to: Archaic Mothers, Ripley's feminism, gender, the patriarchy in space, and Jung's theory on the Shadow Self!

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com

Resources:

"The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative" By Sandra Jackson & Julie Moody-Freeman

"Interstellar Sleep Produces Such Matriarchal Monsters" By Davina Quinlivan

"Alien Thoughts: Mind Reading and Spectatorial Pleasure in Ridley Scott’s Horror Film" by Cecilia Madeline Bolich

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4207&context=etd

“Woman: The Other Alien in Alien” by Tom Shone

https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/prometheus-why-are-academics-so-obsessed-with-ridley-scotts-alien-and-its-sequels.html

"The First Action Heroine" by Xan Brooks

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/13/ridley-scott-alien-ripley

"GENDER AND THE HORROR FILM: BIRTH, RAPE AND FEMALE SEXUALITY IN RIDLEY SCOTT’S ALIEN (1979)" by Jake Martyn Bogira

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316657606_Gender_and_the_Horror_Film_Birth_Rape_and_Female_Sexuality_in_Ridley_Scott's_Alien_1979

'Alien' Is Sci-Fi Horror's Most Feminist Movie Franchise

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdn4d/alien-is-sci-fi-horrors-most-feminist-movie-franchise

"Illusionary Strength: An Analysis of Female Empowerment in Science Fiction and Horror Films in Fatal Attraction, Aliens, and The Stepford Wives" by Jennifer Lynn Ruben

‘Alien’ Revisited: Nearly Four Decades Later, Ripley Is Still the Boundary-Busting Heroine We Deserve by Kate Erbland

https://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/alien-ripley-heroine-ridley-scott-sigourney-weaver-1201817775/

"Why Alien is one of the most influential movies ever made" by Peter Howell

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2015/09/03/a-parasite-to-remember-why-alien-is-one-of-the-most-influential-movies-ever-made.html

"Reassessing Alien: Sexuality and the Anxieties of Men" By Jason Haggstrom http://reel3.com/reassessing-alien-sexuality-and-the-anxieties-of-men/

(In)alienable Rights: Property, Feminism, and the Female Body from Ann Radcliffe to the Alien Films by Lauren Fitzgerald

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/2001-n21-ron433/005961ar/

Ripley, Sexism, and Classism in ‘Aliens’ by Adam Sherman

http://www.btchflcks.com/2016/07/ripley-sexism-and-classism-in-aliens.html#.XGSKRxlKjfY

"Alien" as an Abortion Parable by John L. Cobbs (Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3 (1990), pp. 198-201 (4 pages).

Sigourney Weaver on Ellen Ripley (AFI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zev0m1Gmw0g

Be afraid! Be very afraid! You probably didn’t know that that famous line came from this film! Well, it does! This week your favorite ghouls discuss David Cronenberg’s most successful film, The Fly! Topics of discussion include but are not limited to: abortion, literal and metaphorical aging in relationships, disease, toxic masculinity and cis male puberty!

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

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The Fly (1986) Resources:

Vincent Price Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/vincent-price-his-life-and-his-films-part-1

Vincent Price Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/goodmourningnancy/vincent-price-his-life-and-his-films-part-2

Beyond the Veil of the Flesh: David Cronenberg’s THE FLY (1986) by Matt Zoller Seitz

https://www.indiewire.com/2012/12/beyond-the-veil-of-the-flesh-david-cronenbergs-the-fly-1986-232951/

The Beetle and the Fly by David Cronenberg

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/17/the-beetle-and-the-fly/

Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror by Ronald Allan Lopez Cruz

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235990959_Mutations_and_Metamorphoses_Body_Horror_is_Biological_Horror

`THE FLY` EVOLVES INTO MORE THAN A HORROR STORY by Dave Kehr

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-08-15-8603010075-story.html

“Disease with a Purpose”: Ex-Boyfriends, Abortion and The Fly (1986) by Sarah Cook

https://brightlightsfilm.com/disease-with-a-purpose-ex-boyfriends-abortion-and-the-fly-1986/#.XDVzXhNKjfY

Abortion and “The Fly”

https://abortiongang.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/abortion-and-the-fly/

33 Things We Learned From David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’ Commentary

https://filmschoolrejects.com/33-things-we-learned-from-david-cronenbergs-the-fly-commentary-ae5eb41f61de/

The Fly (1986 film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film)

Riches, Simon, et al. The Philosophy of David Cronenberg. U.P. of Kentucky, 2012.

What Happens to Brundle?: Problems of Teleportation and Personal Identity in The Fly

By Paul F. Snowdon in The Philosophy of David Cronenberg.

“The Fly (1986): ‘I Am an Insect Who Dreamt He Was a Man.’” The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, by WILLIAM BEARD, University of Toronto Press, Toronto; Buffalo; London, 2006, pp. 198–233. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1mkbdc3.13.

We're sorry we called you a meatloaf but we couldn't help it! This week we discuss 1981's An American Werewolf in London written and directed by John Landis! Discussion topics include but are not limited to: German and Yiddish folklore, why Jews love AAWIL, Alex the Mother-Wife, and the werewolf identity.

This episode also contains some material that might be triggering to some audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Resources:

An American Werewolf in London (1981). dir. John Landis

Forceville, Charles. (2014). Embodied identity in werewolf films of the 1980s. Image [&] Narrative. 15. 44-55.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262562937_Embodied_identity_in_werewolf_films_of_the_1980s

Kennedy, Harlan. Things That Go Howl in the Id. Film Comment. Vol. 18, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL 1982), pp. 37-39. Published by: Film Society of Lincoln Center https://www.jstor.org/stable/43452832

“Feats of Clay: Seven Horror Movies Inspired by Jewish Folklore & History” by Nat Brehmer

http://wickedhorror.com/top-horror-lists/feats-clay-eight-horror-movies-inspired-jewish-folklore-history/

“Why Jews Love American Werewolf in London” by Rokhl Kafrissen

http://notsocriticaltheory.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-jews-love-american-werewolf-in.html

"Based" "on" "a" "True" "Story" by Rokhl Kafrissen

http://rokhl.blogspot.com/2012/08/based-on-true-story.html

“What’s So Jewish About Werewolves?” By Esther Saks

http://jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/whats-jewish-werewolves

“TV: Should Jews save the werewolf from extinction?” BY JEREMY WEXLER

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/13884/

“That Moment In An American Werewolf in London…” by David Duprey

https://www.thatmomentin.com/an-american-werewolf-in-london/

“An American Werewolf in London Is Still the Best Horror Reimagining” by David Crow

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/an-american-werewolf-in-london/257876/an-american-werewolf-in-london-is-still-the-best-horror-reimagining

“Why I love... An American Werewolf in London” by Jon Spira

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/why-i-love-american-werewolf-london

An American Werewolf in London: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Werewolf_in_London

Video Reviews & Essays:

An American Werewolf in London Wins Makeup: 1982 Oscars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f7by_UMNw

An American Werewolf in London - Horror Movie Review by The Death Twitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4qeqMw-QQ

An American Werewolf in London 1981 Movie Review by Retro Nerd Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9eg62pMDAk

An American Werewolf in London - Making Monsters by Movie Junkie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFwVCO3vZRQ

10 Killer Facts About AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON by MovieWeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scVSDncohXM

Take a BITE out of this week's episode! Lily Ana Amirpour's vampire flick: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night! Discussion topics include: feminism in the middle east and in the west, fantasy worlds, Sergio Leone, and punkette filmmaking!

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com

Episode Resources:

Articles:

Abdi, Shadee, and Bernadette Marie Calafell. “Queer Utopias and a (Feminist) Iranian Vampire: a Critical Analysis of Resistive Monstrosity in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 34, no. 4, 2017, pp. 358–370.

Atkinson, Michael. “Vampire Princess of Persia.” In These Times, vol. 38, no. 12, Dec. 2014. Questia.com.

Ito, Robert. “The Shadow in a Chador ; Ana Lily Amirpour's Film, with an Iranian Vampire, Breaks Hollywood's Rules.” International New York Times, 14 Nov. 2014. Questia.com.

McDavid, Jodi. “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 18, no. 1, 1 Jan. 2014. Questia.com.

Online:

AGWHAAN Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_Walks_Home_Alone_at_Night

Sundance Film Review: ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ by Guy Lodge

https://variety.com/2014/film/markets-festivals/sundance-film-review-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-1201069599/

The Feminist Iranian Vampire Western You’ve Waiting For by Andrew Hehir

https://www.salon.com/2014/11/21/a_girl_walks_home_alone_at_night_the_black_and_white_feminist_iranian_vampire_western_youve_been_waiting_for/

Meet the Woman Who Directed the World's Only Iranian Vampire Western by Angela Watercutter

https://www.wired.com/2014/02/girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/

‘A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night’ and Scares Us by Ren Jender

http://www.btchflcks.com/2014/12/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-and-scares-us.html#.XBK4uRNKiu4

Feminist Fangs: The Activist Symbolism of Violent Vampire Women by Melissa-Kelly Franklin

http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/feminist-fangs-the-activist-symbolism-of-violent-vampire-women.html#.XBK6pBNKiu4

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: A Vampire with No Name by Samantha “Sam” Cross

http://www.btchflcks.com/2017/04/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-a-vampire-with-no-name.html#.XBK4vRNKiu4

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Interview with Ana Lily Amirpour by Virginie Sélavy

http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2015/05/19/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-interview-with-ana-lily-amirpour/

Don’t eat strange soup! It might have been made with human flesh! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Antonia Bird’s 1999 film, Ravenous! The discussion includes but is not limited to: American Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, Wetiko disease, lost Europeans and gender studies!

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Buy some coffee from our sponsors: www.recesscoffee.com

Patreon Shout Out Music: www.purple-planet.com

Resources:

“Exceptional Zombie Cannibals” – Antonia Bird’s ‘Ravenous’ (1999) and the discourse of American exceptionalism by Olga Ackroyd

http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/exceptional-zombie-cannibals-antonia-birds-ravenous-1999-and-the-discourse-of-american-exceptionalism/

Ravenous Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_(1999_film)

Hungry? 'Ravenous' May Spoil Your Appetite by Dann Gire

Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen By Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

Carnal Appetites: Foodsexidentities by Elspeth Probyn

Roger Ebert Review of Ravenous

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ravenous-1999

Why You Should Chew on Ravenous by Luis H.C.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3460304/editorial-chew-ravenous/

Wendigo Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo

Ravenous Featurette - Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QB2LY6hoXA

Audio Commentary for Ravenous (1999) with Director: Antonia Bird

Unsettling America: Wetiko by Paul Levy

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/tag/wetiko/

Wait.... Frankenhooker is a feminist film!? DAMN. RIGHT. This week your favorite ghouls will be discussing this amazingly schlocky B-movie! Topics covered include, but are not limited to: legalizing sex work, the Just Say No Campaign, body shaming and its affects, and the vagina dentata!

Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

Check out our sponsors and buy some coffee: www.recesscoffee.com

Resources:

Frankenhooker Review

http://watchinghorrorfilmsfrombehindthecouch.blogspot.com/2012/01/frankenhooker.html

Sleaze and Cheese in Frank Henenlotter’s FRANKENHOOKER by Melissa Howard

http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/dev/2011/10/sleaze-and-cheese-in-frank-henenlotter%E2%80%99s-frankenhooker/

Frankenhooker Review By Giovanni Deldio

https://horrorfreaknews.com/frankenhooker-1990-review/7281

Frankenhooker / Mary Shelley Wiki

http://mary-shelley.wikia.com/wiki/Frankenhooker

Exploring Frankenhooker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_QXj_QPL0

Frankenhooker (1990) Monster Madness X movie review #7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1b6kFLfLw

W.T.F. With Bianca Barnett 013: Frankenhooker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX5eFNzFwjM

FRANKENHOOKER (1990): A TRASH MASTERPIECE THAT GETS MADDER WITH EVERY FRAME

http://methodsunsound.com/frankenhooker-1990-trash-masterpiece/

Mary Shelley’s Jersey Boy: The Possessive Love of FRANKENHOOKER

https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/02/11/mary-shelleys-jersey-boy-the-possessive-love-of-frankenhooker

FRIGHTS, FUN, AND FEMINISM: FRANKENHOOKER IS A B-HORROR MOVIE ROMP THAT NOT ONLY DELIVERS LAUGHS BUT ALSO AN EMPOWERING MESSAGE by Vicky Cirello (Nightmare Maven)

http://morbidlybeautiful.com/digging-deep-frankenhooker/

Nightmare Maven’s Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/NightmareMaven

Post-Modern Feminism and Frankenhooker

https://cinema.usc.edu/assets/101/16175.pdf

Far from the Madding Crowd & Frankenhooker

http://www.catvskirk.org/archive/2015/5/23/far-from-the-madding-crowd-frankenhooker

The American Crack Epidemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic

Frankenhooker: A Feminist Reading

https://chicksandchainsaws.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/frankenhooker-a-feminist-reading/

‘Just Say No’ Campaign History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No

WHY JUST SAY NO DOESN’T WORK by Scott O. Lilienfeld & Hal Arkowitz

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-just-say-no-doesnt-work/

Nancy Reagan and the negative impact of the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign by Michael McGrath

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/08/nancy-reagan-drugs-just-say-no-dare-program-opioid-epidemic

Why Prostitution Should Be Legal by Jennifer Wright

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a20067359/why-prostitution-should-be-legal/

The Cultural History of the Vagina Dentata by Felix Morgan

https://outtake.tribecashortlist.com/beyond-teeth-the-cultural-history-of-vagina-dentata-60e9f020d557

What’s Wrong with Fat Shaming by Gabriel Gavin

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wiring-the-mind/201501/whats-wrong-fat-shaming

Does The Soul Exist? By Robert Lanza, M.D.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/201112/does-the-soul-exist-evidence-says-yes

Where In Your Body is Your Soul? By Candida Moss & Jessica Barron

https://www.thedailybeast.com/where-in-your-body-is-your-soul

When Sex Work & Drug Use Overlap by Melissa Hope Ditmore

https://www.hri.global/files/2014/08/06/Sex_work_report_%C6%924_WEB.pdf

This week we're living deliciously and talking about The VVitch! Topics of discussion include but aren't limited to: fear of feminine power, the history of the puritans, mothers & daughters, and Satanism!

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Resources:

“Female Freedom and Fury in The Witch” by David Sims

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/robert-eggers-the-witch-female-empowerment/470844/

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_(2015_film)

“Why ‘The Witch’ is the scariest historical film ever” by Melissa J. Gismondi

http://theconversation.com/why-the-witch-is-the-scariest-historical-film-ever-85068

“The Witch: A New England Folktale” Review (Journal of Religion & Film) by Stephen Stensrud

https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1602&context=jrf

“The Witch is Sinister, Smart, and Wildly Feminist” by Scott Pierce

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-witch-demonization-women/

How Much Does ‘The Witch’ Get Right About Real Witchcraft? By Greg Cwik

https://www.indiewire.com/2016/02/how-much-does-the-witch-get-right-about-real-witchcraft-67796/

All The Witch’s Most WTF Moments, Explained: A Spoiler-Filled Interview With the Director by Forrest Wickman

https://slate.com/culture/2016/02/the-witch-director-robert-eggers-on-the-real-history-behind-the-movies-most-wtf-scenes.html

“The Witch” Review by Gibson, Gerard, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies

https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-4260297291/the-witch

‘The Witch’ Will Transport You to Another World  —  A Beautiful, but Terrifying One by Lee Jutton

http://www.btchflcks.com/2017/11/the-witch-will-transport-you-to-another-world.html#.W_Lz0XpKiu4

The Threat of Feminine Power in ‘The Witch’ by Josh Bradley

http://www.btchflcks.com/2016/10/the-witch-and-the-threat-of-feminine-power.html#.W_Lz1npKiu4

‘The Witch’ and Legitimizing Feminine Fear by Josephine Maria Yanasak-Leszczynski

http://www.btchflcks.com/2016/04/the-witch-and-legitimizing-feminine-fear.html#.W_Lz2HpKiu4

‘The Witch’ and Female Adolescence in Film by Maria Ramos

http://www.btchflcks.com/2016/03/the-witch-and-female-adolescence-in-film.html#.W_Lz4HpKiu4

IN HORROR FILM “THE WITCH,” TERROR STEMS FROM PURITANICAL CONTROL OF WOMEN by Britt Ashley

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/horror-film-witch-terror-stems-puritanical-control-women

“The Witch director Robert Eggers talks about bringing Puritan fears to a modern world” by Tasha Robinson

https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/19/11059130/the-witch-director-robert-eggers-interview

Robert Eggers on 'The Witch', Familial Trauma, and the Supernatural by VICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNrHzCXpTM

“THE WITCH ISN’T AN EMPOWERMENT NARRATIVE AND THAT’S WHY IT’S GREAT” by Jess Joho

https://killscreen.com/articles/the-witch-isnt-an-empowerment-narrative-and-thats-why-its-great/

“By turning fantasy into reality, The Witch exposes society’s fear of female sexuality” by Eleanor Margolis

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/03/turning-fantasy-reality-witch-exposes-society-s-fear-female-sexuality

Women and Religion in Early America, 1600-1850: The Puritan and Evangelical Traditions by Helena M. Wall

https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-112535269/women-and-religion-in-early-america-1600-1850-the

Lewd Women and Wicked Witches: A Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination by Marianne Hester

https://www.questia.com/read/103903755/lewd-women-and-wicked-witches-a-study-of-the-dynamics

Faculty of Horror Podcast - Episode 60: Witches in Film Part 3: http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2018/03/episode-60-season-of-the-witch-witches-in-film-part-3-the-witch-2015-and-the-autopsy-of-jane-doe-2016/