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Gothic Tourism
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Gothic Tourism is one of several books published as part of the ‘Palgrave Gothic’ series, aimed not only at academics but a more general readership. Here, author Emma McEvoy examines everything from waxwork museums to ghost walks to ask what Gothic tourism is and how Gothic works as a touristic …
Fight Your Own War
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HEADPRESS: Hi Jennifer. You’re the evil genius behind our new FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR: Power Electronics and Noise Culture title, which is proving quite the cult smash. Tell us about the genesis of the book? JENNIFER WALLIS: I’m not a musician—I have, let’s say, far from outstanding musical and technical abilities—so writing and …
Fright Night vs. Fright Night
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Ask me which film defined my childhood, growing up in the eighties and nineties, and it won’t be The Breakfast Club or Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Fright Night (1985) consumed my every waking moment for many months after my all too liberal-minded mother allowed me to watch the …
Deathpile – G.R. (LP)
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We didn’t know this when putting together Mark Goodall’s Gathering of the Tribe, but are pleased to report that Deathpile’s G.R.—also covered in Jennifer Wallis’ book Fight Your Own War—is now available on vinyl. Limited to 500 copies, it can now be found on Discogs, here. (Also available streaming on …
Dead: A Celebration of Mortality
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Dead: A Celebration of Mortality contains 52 short essays to coincide with the Saatchi Gallery’s 2015 exhibition of the same name. Charles Saatchi is no stranger to controversy, from the furore surrounding 1997’s ‘Sensation’—an exhibition including Marcus Harvey’s notorious portrait of Myra Hindley—to 2001’s ‘I Am A Camera’, which attracted …
Adjust Your Tracking: an Interview with Dan Kinem
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Dan Kinem is co-founder of VHShitfest, a website dedicated to all things VHS, and co-director—with fellow tape-hound Levi ‘Dabeedo’ Peretic—of a new documentary about the format. Jennifer Wallis speaks to Dan about collecting and the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector. JENNIFER WALLIS: Could you tell …
The Bridge
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This week, Mr Kerekes and I spent Monday evening watching—no, not the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations—Eric Steel’s The Bridge. There’s been a lot of talk of death film in the Kerekes-Wallis household lately, with the breaking case of alleged pretty-boy psycho Luka Magnotta coming just in time for putting the finishing …
Anthropophagus – The Music Hall Edition
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I swore off going to screenings of video nasties a few years ago. Living in London, it increasingly seemed like you couldn’t go to the cinema to watch any horror film made before 1990 without sitting through the accompanying guffaws and knowing snorts of much of the audience. I put …