The Seduction of the Abyss: Mechanisms of Fascist Consciousness in Agusti Villaronga’s In a Glass Cage (1987)
In a Glass Cage was released in 1987, a decade after Franco’s death, in a Spain still struggling to come to terms with its fascist past.
Gore, Pseudosnuff, Splatter: The Ontology of the Body and the Aesthetics of Disgust in the Horror Genre
This article develops a philosophical analysis of three extreme subgenres within horror cinema by interrogating the ontological status of the body and the aesthetics of disgust.
Cinema and Video
Cultism, Modern Nazism, and the Hollow Promise of European Humanism in Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs
Pascal Laugier’s 2008 film Martyrs stands as a radical intervention in twenty-first-century horror cinema, a work that transforms extreme physical suffering into an instrument of ideological critique....