by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jan 12, 2022 | Journal
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema.” From Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct to Derek Jarman’s Edward II, from Tom...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jun 15, 2021 | Events
Haunted Homes: Book LaunchDahlia Schweitzer, in conversation with bestselling author and journalist Jonathan Allen, will discuss her latest book, Haunted Homes this Friday, June 18th, at 7PM EST. The event will take place online via Zoom and free tickets can be...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Feb 5, 2021 | Special Features
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Haunted Homes, out June 2021 via Rutgers University Press. “Even serial killers live next door to somebody.”—Summer of 84 Haunted houses feel as much a part of Halloween as pumpkins and costumes. It can be hard to...
by Dahlia | Apr 1, 2020 | Journal
In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal Foster writes that it is trauma that allows us to escape from the traditional binary approach that plagued most postwar art: that images either refer to something or...
by Dahlia | Mar 22, 2020 | Special Features
Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World. Taking a look at these fictional narratives before and even during an outbreak can help us see what to do and, more important, what not to do in...
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