Tag Archives: Jennifer Wallis
Top 3: Thriller episodes
Do you like your horror homely? JENNIFER WALLIS picks her top three Thriller episodes and considers their nostalgic and aesthetic appeal. If you’ve exhausted your stock of DVDs and watched everything ... Read More
Uh-Oh, We’re in Trouble: Sweetness and Subversion in 90s Pop
Sweet and subversion - the combative cuteness of 90s pop duo Shampoo ... Read More
Fighting terror with trading cards in Reagan’s America
Trading cards are something of a US institution. Many feature sports personalities. Some don't, such as the Terrorist Attack Educational Cards of the 1980s ... Read More
From snow globes to barb wire: Five History picks
From a Victorian gentleman fascinated with working women to a pageant for barb wire, here are five top picks in History books by Jennifer Wallis ... Read More
Eerie Tales and Unsettling Stories: A Personal History of Teen Horror Fiction
As many of us find solace in ‘comfort reading’, JENNIFER WALLIS revisits teen horror fiction of the 1980s and 90s, from Point Horror to ‘spooky’ anthologies ... Read More
Victimologies: Harriet and True Crime Fiction
Originally published in 1934, Elizabeth Jenkins’ Harriet is an unsettling account of murder, one that foregrounds victims rather than perpetrators ... Read More
Don’t F**k With Cats and the Online Spectacle of Death
A critical look at the Netflix documentary series, Don’t F**k With Cats, which has earned both praise and opprobrium for its exploration of the case of Luka Magnotta. By Jennifer ... Read More
Gothic Tourism
Gothic Tourism (2016; Emma McEvoy). Review by Jennifer Wallis. Gothic Tourism is one of several books published as part of the ‘Palgrave Gothic’ series, aimed not only at academics but ... Read More
Fight Your Own War
Editor and contributor Jennifer Wallis talks about power electronics, noise culture, and her new book. HEADPRESS: Hi Jennifer. You’re the evil genius behind our new FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR: Power Electronics and ... Read More
Fright Night vs. Fright Night
Fright Night (USA, 1985; dir. Tom Holland); Fright Night (USA, 2011; dir. Craig Gillespie) Review by Jennifer Wallis Ask me which film defined my childhood, growing up in the eighties and ... Read More
