Name: Cannibal Fathers in American Horror Cinema of the 1970s with Lakkaya Palmer @RomancingTheGothic
Uploaded: 2023-07-26T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: This talk looks at the depiction of the father in horror films. Lakkaya introduces us to her paradigm of the ferocious father and does a deep dive on the cannibal father in relation to The Hills Have Eyes

Killer Cake and Reckless Romance in Dragonwyck (1946) with Dr Sam Hirst @RomancingTheGothic

Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

I take you through the 1946 film Dragonwyck (starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney) looking at the different layers of meaning and possible readings that emerge when we view it through different generic lenses: as a Gothic romance, a paranoid women's film, and as an example of New England Gothic.

Killer Cake and Reckless Romance in Dragonwyck (1946) with Dr Sam Hirst

Cannibal Fathers in American Horror Cinema of the 1970s with Lakkaya Palmer