What Are We Afraid Of? is a monthly podcast at the intersection of sociology and horror films, examining what those movies can tell us about our society and ourselves.
What Are We Afraid Of?
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Podcast Overview
What Are We Afraid Of? is a monthly podcast at the intersection of sociology and horror films, examining what those movies can tell us about our society and ourselves.
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Publishing Since
4/19/2021
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May 11, 2021
Defining Horror
<p>On this, the first episode of What Are We Afraid Of?, I discuss my definition of horror and what makes a movie a horror film.</p> <p>MOVIES MENTIONED: Trilogy of Terror, Get Out, Alien, The Day After, Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Thing.</p> <p>AUDIO CLIPS FROM: Trilogy of Terror, The Day After, Jaws, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead.</p> <p>SHOW NOTES:</p> <p>The 2010s Were the Decade When Horror Got Smart: https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a30284121/elevated-horror-2010s-peele-eggers-aster-blumhouse/</p> <p>There’s No Such Thing As ‘Elevated Horror’: https://www.slashfilm.com/elevated-horror/</p> <p>Black Storytellers Are Using Horror to Combat Hate: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/black-storytellers-are-using-horror-to-battle-hate</p> <p>Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492010/</p> <p>(Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813198/</p> <p>Background Music is Amoeba Miasmic Void by Gatherer, under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates license<a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gatherer" target="_blank">.</a></p>
April 19, 2021
What Are We Afraid Of? Trailer
<p>What Are We Afraid Of? is a podcast at the intersection of sociology and horror films, examining what those movies can tell us about our society and ourselves. </p> <p>Music by Zen Man from Pixabay.</p> <p>Audio clip from Night of the Living Dead (1968).</p>
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