Video package: RURAL GOTHIC: SUBURBAN WYRD
Recordings of the presentations and Q&A sessions from the 2-day Rural Gothic Suburban Wyrd event, originally presented online via Zoom on May 22 and 23, 2021. Speakers and presentations included:
Icy Sedgwick - Keep Off the Lawn: Set Design and the Suburbs in Monster House
Quen Took - ‘We Are The Weirdos, Mister’ – Sisterhood and the Sapphic Gaze in the Witch Movie
Jon Dear - Bracknell Gothic - TV and film portrayals of the changing nature of threat in British New Towns
Montilee Stormer - Suburban Hellscape: the deceptive lure of greener grass, toxic neighbours, and the ghoul next door
Madeleine D'Este - Australian Suburban Wyrd - Not as Normal as Neighbours
Erika Kvistad - Folklore in Suburbia: Shirley Jackson, Carmen Maria Machado, Bluebeard, and the Demon Lover
Kai D'Argenta - No Place Like Home: Uncanny Housewives in The Hours and Wandavision
CM Wilson - Were the Suburbs Built for Horror?
Murray Leeder - The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: Red Letter Day and the Suburban Gothic
Don't Go Into The Cellar performance - Unsettling If True, based on the MR James stories, Room No Thirteen and The Diary of Mr Poynter