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Nathan Lunn
Oct 311 min read
There’s Noé Way Out!
Enter the Void and The Horror of Cinematic Sensorial Death
Nathan Lunn
Oct 311 min read
Your Reputation Doesn’t Precede You, It Follows.
It Follows and The Social Artificiality of Female Promiscuity
Nathan Lunn
Jul 79 min read
Cor Blimey Guv'nor! It's a Whopping Ginormous Lizard, innit!
Gorgo and the British Kaiju Blitz Come And See: a long-lost treasure plundered! Come And See: an idyllic coastal town in Ireland...
Nathan Lunn
Jun 289 min read
Tying the Hitched-Knot: Bound by Rope
Rope and Underlying Homoerotic Tensions "Those things which are included in the following list shall not appear in pictures produced by...
Nathan Lunn
Jun 713 min read
Nasty Video Burroughs into the New Flesh
Videodrome and Infections of Video Violence The prosecution insisted that the videocassettes that were seized from VIPCO’s offices were:...
Nathan Lunn
Apr 2610 min read
Siblings in Space: Kane and BabyAble
Alien and Fears of Unnatural Pregnancies A red stain. Then a smear of blood blossoms on his chest. The fabric of his shirt is ripped...
Nathan Lunn
Apr 231 min read
Earth is ill? Well, our Gaian God’s iller.
The American Monsterverse and Godzilla as a Gaian Eco-Warrior
Nathan Lunn
Mar 301 min read
Purrsecution: Lovecats and The Cure of Containment
Cat People and Patriarchal Fears of Feminine Sexual Power
Nathan Lunn
Jan 269 min read
Fellini's 9/11
Cloverfield and American Apocalyptic Imagery on Screen By the turn of the millennium, New York City was used to being destroyed....
Nathan Lunn
Dec 20, 202312 min read
Holly Does Hitchcock
Body Double and the Trashing of Noir A sexually-frustrated man watches an exotic woman dancing out of his window, voyeuristically...
Nathan Lunn
Dec 6, 202311 min read
Straight Down the Line
Double Indemnity and Fatalism It was Friday when She walked into my office. The low light of the November afternoon was filtering through...
Nathan Lunn
Nov 28, 202310 min read
1950s Shades of Grayscale
Classic American Film Noir Film Noir can be an incredibly challenging thing to define. Likely, you know what it is when you see it: it’s...
Nathan Lunn
Oct 31, 202315 min read
Seeing isn’t Believing: Historical, Fantastical Eye-Conography
Pan's Labyrinth and Del Toro's Auteur style Questions of authorship are quite simple for narrative literature. In the written and...
Nathan Lunn
Oct 13, 202315 min read
Jason VorHees / Shees
Friday the 13th, The Slasher Genre and the Interstitial Gender Space Heavy breathing. Laughter floats in the air. The twigs snap under...
Nathan Lunn
Sep 11, 20231 min read
Never Forget the Lesson, We Torture
Saw and Justifying "Extreme Interrogation" Post 9/11
Nathan Lunn
Aug 5, 20236 min read
Coherence, Cannibals and Chainsaws
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1970s Incoherence in Horror On the whole, American history throughout the 1970s is now recognised as ‘a...
Nathan Lunn
Aug 4, 202314 min read
Combating Consumerism
Fight Club and Marxist Film Theory The capitalist mode of production can be defined, in the most reductive way possible, as one that is...
Nathan Lunn
Jun 26, 202312 min read
Found-Footage and True Cinematic Verisimilitude
The Blair Witch Project and the difficulty between ideal cinematic presentation and the illusion of reality Often viewed as one of the...
Nathan Lunn
May 30, 20238 min read
Edgar Wright's Transnational Comedy
Hot Fuzz and and the transnational deployment of American aesthetics against British settings to create comedy Contemporary British...
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