#kier-la janisse

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An autobiographic topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films - Kier-La Janisse

HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMAN

#horror #book #books #movies #films #cinema #kier-la janisse #autobiographical #topography #female #neurosis #woman #art #cover art #cover #u

[thevampcave]

house of psychotic women now has an audiobook narrated by kier-la janisse herself! for any audiobook enjoyers out there

#house of psychotic women #kier-la janisse

[angelnumber27]

#on my reading list #house of psychotic women #kier-la Janisse #upload #books #literature

[sesiondemadrugada]

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse, 2021).

#Kier-La Janisse #folk horror #A History of Folk Horror #Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched

[vampilllia]

#kier-la janisse #house of psychotic women: an autobiographical topography of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films #house of psychotic women #film studies #horror film #☆

[lyssahumana]

#Kier-la Janisse #cinema #books #book covers

[we-can-be-heroes]

1, 2, 4, 6? 📚

2) What are 2-5 already published nonfiction books you think you want to read in 2023?

Ok so I’m waiting for this one to arrive and I’m extremely excited :

And my dream is to read this one entirely :

She passed away in 2016 and her writings have not been published in years… I’m a bit of a paper fetishist (especially for people I adore) so of course I want the physical version 😭 but I’m afraid it might be hard to find and most of all very expensive. So either I keep waiting for a miracle either I accept to read the pdf version hehe…!

And finally these two :

These also are two very rare books I plan on finding and buying lol 🥲 ! These were supposed to be a triptych/trilogy but life is hard and making books costs money so unfortunately it didn’t happen. The first volume is about the international post-punk, cold wave, techno-pop, dark folk, gothic rock, electronic, EBM, industrial metal scenes, basically all the related movements that have appeared since the 70’s etc……. And the second volume apparently tackles the….French gothic scene ??? As well as other francophone gothic scenes such as the Swiss, Belgian and Luxembourgish, which I don’t know shit about. As far as I know these are THE MOST COMPLETE publications about the subject written in French !!!!

4) Do you plan to read any genres you haven't read much before?

Hummmm as funny/crazy as it sounds I’ve never read any horror novels lol ! (Except for Carrie when I was a preteen) I watch horror, I read horror mangas, horror comics, even theorical/philosophical stuff about horror in magazines but no horror novels. Reading horror novels sound way scarier than any of the other stuff I listed that contain CLEAR IMAGES 😭 ! But I’m ready and would like to give it a shot. Other than that any good books that contain magical realism ? English Gothic Literature, French romantisme noir. And more theorical/philosophical/scientific stuff about subjects I care about !

6) Do you have any conceptual reading goals?

E.g., I plan to read books on food history.

Yes absolutely, as you can see in the previous book choices & the answer just above, I would like to read more theorical essays about music genres and their historical and political aspects, same goes for genre cinema, and the different themes and recurring patterns found there .

But also more books about cultural studies and critical theory. A few years ago for a long time I was going through a very strong feeling of DÉSIDENTIFICATION (disidentification) which was painful at the time, but also freeing ! [ I am still and constantly going through it tbh but in a very less violent way, the freeing part is starting to kick in hehe !] so, I was saying this word constantly to talk about how I felt and I ended up doing research and learning that this term had already been invented/theorized by someone called José Esteban Muñoz, in his very first book :

It made me very emotional to know that someone had written an entire book around the topic lol and now I really want to read it ! I found myself wrapped in feelings of unbelonging since forever so I’m always very attracted to and interested in what other people may have said or thought about these matters.

I will probably go through these rollercoasters of identification and disidentification my whole entire life but that’s also what makes it exciting and interesting and worth living I guess !

Not being able to categorize and decrypt you easily or at all is something that always enrages aaaaaaaall types of people ! And this is something I absolutely love and hate and find very interesting.

Pissing of and disturbing people by my very existence has always been my little specialty ! At some point I even started cultivating this by trying to scare people (through my art, looks, and unconsciously, probably, some aspects of my personality and life ““choices”” such as isolation) as an attempt to protect myself and free myself from this weight loool ! Which in my experience really isn't always a good idea, and once again is as liberating as it is painful !! For myself and others !!

Partly for all these reasons i have always been very drawn to the idea of “monstrosity” and have identified with monsters in art for as long as I remember so I’m always very happy to come across writings/books about this ! (if any of you have any recommendations btw don’t hesitate 🤍 ! Except for Paul B. preciado’s book that I have already heard about)

Anyway !!! So yeah basically I want to read these 5 books 😂😂😂….The only link I see between them is the idea of community that I have loved and hated and loved and hated and LOVED again 🔄🔄🔄🔄🔄♾️♾️♾️ and that I keep deconstructing and reconstructing perpetually !!!!

Thank you very much for the very interesting questions, loved answering these and sorry if « 2023 book ask » might have turned into « over sharing » ?? I just thought that it was related, and wanted to explain the book choices !

Have a great night !! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

#books #kier-la janisse #Pauline Oliveros #José Esteban Muñoz #asks

[booksellergothic]

Halloween, Days 21 & 22

A double event because I wasn’t home enough yesterday to post.  Both of today’s recommendations are works from Canadian writer and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse

The documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched is my favorite doc I have seen this year.  The definitive - perhaps even exhaustive - work on Folk Horror on film.  At three hours and fourteen minutes it covers the British origins of what is now formally called Folk Horror and then moves on to cover the rest of the world.  Both authoritative, chockful of interviews and scenes from movies familiar and obscure, it is also a work of beauty in itself.  

Ten years ago Janisse wrote what was, at the time, a revolutionary autobiography using the horror and exploitation films that she had loved and been obsessed with since her childhood to examine her own history, her personal and family traumas, and struggles with mental illness, rage, and selfhood.  Ignoring what was considered a given that film should only be viewed in an impartial way, Janisse made these movies intensely personal.  

Now she has updated her work, to include both her experiences and the changes in her life in the last decade, and the new films that have become part of her internal world.  This book is intense, honest, and sometimes terribly uncomfortable, even harrowing, but worth for anyone whose connection to horror and other dark media is also a part of who they are, not merely what they like.

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#31 days of halloween reading #31 days of halloween #halloween #kier-la janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #house of psychotic women

[fathersonholygore]

A Fantasia Festival 2023 PREVIEW

Most years I don’t particularly look forward to my birthday—yes, I’m one of THOSE people—but you can bet that every single summer I look forward to the Fantasia International Film Festival; one of the greatest film festivals on Planet Earth. Fantasia cobbles together a wide variety of genre films from all corners of the world and every corner of genre, spanning proud B-films of any genre to…

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#2023 #Climate Change #Fantasia Festival #Fantasy #Genre Film #Hong Kong Action Cinema #horror #John Woo #Kier-La Janisse #Larry Fessenden #Science Fiction #Zach Clark

[aconissa]

WRITERS + DIRECTORS ON THE POWER OF HORROR

Catriona Ward, interview for The Guardian Mark Gatiss, in A History of Horror (2010) Pascal Laugier, for Electric Sheep Candyman (1992), dir. Bernard Rose Colin Dickey, Ghostland Carmen Maria Machado, for Paris Review Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women Possession (1981), dir. Andrzej Żuławski Mariana Enríquez, ‘Notes on Craft’, Granta Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors

#guillermo del toro #carmen maria machado #kier la janisse #possession #candyman #catriona ward #mariana enriquez #colin dickey #pascal laugier #mark gatiss #ana speaks #mine #my comparatives #quotes #horror #popular

[doomsayings]

As with most female horror fans, people love to ask me what it is I get out of horror. I give them the stock answers: catharsis, empowerment, escapism and so on. Less easy to explain is the fact that I gravitate toward films that devastate and unravel me completely – a good horror film will more often make me cry than make me shudder.

Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women

#that post reminded me I’ve had this book downloaded forever and need to finish it #kier la janisse #house of psychotic women

[marypickfords]

The Stalls of Barchester (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1971) A Warning to the Curious (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1972) Lost Hearts (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1973) The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1974) The Ash Tree (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1975)

“For all five of these adaptations, Gordon Clark worked with cinematographer John McGlashan and sound recordist Dick Manton, who he credits with establishing the gloomy look that would be the hallmark of the series (as well as editor Roger Waugh who edited all the original series’ James adaptations save 1973’s ‘Lost Hearts’). Central to that aesthetic were the authentic East Anglian locations that have been the inspiration for many a terror tale, even aside from those of M.R. James.

‘James lived in East Anglia—the region that encompasses Norfolk and Suffolk—for most of his life,’ explains Helen Wheatley, citing this as one reason James set many of his stories there. ‘However, there is also a broader sense of the region as being rather out on a limb, a relative hinterland, which lends itself to ghost story telling,’ she continues. ‘In James’ stories, and their television adaptations, the geography and landscape of the region—expanses of flat land, the whispering grasses of the East Anglian coast line, sparsely populated agricultural land—has a particularly haunting quality.’

This landscape is key to the series’ hauntological appeal. Scholar Derek Johnston has an extensive catalogue of writing that examines nostalgia in relation to the Christmas ghost story—and the A Ghost Story for Christmas series in particular—and notes that the Victorian middle class idealization of rural life was subverted by James’ stories, which presented the country as peaceful on the surface but a place of dark, tumultuous secrets. He also points out that East Anglia is a land of invaders and colonizers, writing in his essay ‘Season, Landscape and Identity in the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas’ that ‘The connection to the local soil and landscape runs generations deep, but it has also been built upon the remains of earlier populations, with earlier connections to that landscape, overrun by the incomers...the landscape may encourage identification with the nation, but it also emphasises how the landscape is interpreted through the history of human action upon it.’” — Kier-La Janisse, from Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017).

#lawrence gordon clark #kier la janisse #yuletide terror: christmas horror on film and television #w* #caps #mr james christmas

[literarysiren]

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched has a hefty runtime, but you won't even feel it slipping by with as much knowledge packed into this sprawling documentary on folk horror. You can find it on Shudder!

#folk horror #sxsw #sxsw 2021 #south by southwest #film festivals #shudder #woodlands dark and days bewitched #documentary #kier la janisse #shirley jackson #the witch #the wicker man #the lottery #we have always lived in the castle #blood on satan's claw #the witchfinder general #piers haggard #michael reeves #children of the corn #candyman

[bethrnoora]

watching the bigass folk horror documentary (did not realize this was a 3 hour film) and they talked briefly about penda's fen and described the main character's journey very aptly as coming to the realization that "he's never really going to be part of the culture that he thought he was part of." i thought it was a very astute and succinct way to put it and really encapsulated the way that i think a lot of people (myself included) feel a connection to that film

#again. being the outsider + empathizing with the outsider or the uncanny etc etc #penda's fen #kier-la janisse is gonna be at the film festival im going to this weekend so figured now is a better time than any to watch this one lol

[behindavelvetcurtain]

#house of psychotic women #kier la janisse #book

[thefiresofpompeii]

just watched kier-la janisse's 3 hour documentary epic about folk horror as a mode of interpretation and understanding of vastly different styles and eras of genre cinema and despite everything the fact remains that most "horror" "fans" and creators are cowards who firmly stick to their guns regarding their ingrained assumptions and prejudices about cultures/beings/identities that are seen as the other, continuing to proliferate these damaging harmful narratives without questioning which parties may benefit from a version of the story being told from this particular point of view. what ends does the instilling of fear, the most powerful, potent, galvanising in some cases emotion, serve for an audience? (obviously this is the case with any other genre and in actuality just a far wider problem sort of inevitable in a regime that instructs which ideas are to be spread to the masses) but again, it's vital to consider this issue specifically within the realm of horror, since nothing inspires scapegoating, hatred and self-righteous violence quite like blind fear of a phenomenon that the required effort has not been put into comprehending

#anyway the documentary itself SLAPPED i am still reeling from how all-encompassing and wonderfully cohesive it was. standing ovation #can you tell i'm mad about hereditary again. stop touting it as the pinnacle of modern horror or whatever. nobody around me gets it #ari assturd SUCKS he is literally example A of what i'm vagueing here #folk horror #kier la-janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #film #jamie.txt #horror