![]() Like occult literature, they want to make something happen. ![]() Chambers’ The King in Yellow to the writings of William Burroughs, weird fictions have taken the form of a type of infectious stories that ultimately want to rearrange reality. Weird fiction has been called the genre of what could have been. This talk will take a closer look at the tradition for weird fiction and the current revival of weird thought. In case she tires of the research, Icy also writes dark fantasy and Gothic horror fiction. She runs the Fabulous Folklore podcast, investigating European folklore and its appearances in popular culture. Icy Sedgwick is working on a PhD exploring the representation of the haunted house in contemporary Hollywood horror films. ![]() And no discussion of faces would be complete without a celebration of the mask, used to prevent identification, hide deformity, and even as a form of punishment. We’ll pay a visit to the monsters and get up close to the distorted face. We’ll examine why it’s so powerful as a site of expression and investigate its importance to the Gothic as a means of storytelling. ![]() In this talk, we'll explore the face in horror and Gothic films. It is our ability to recognise a face that makes it both terrifying and bewildering when the face is concealed. Indeed, the face is the most individual feature of the body. For an emotion-centered genre like horror, these expressions are crucial to conveying both the terror of the victim and the malice of the monster. ![]() Desmond’s issue with sound cinema is its privileging of the voice and language over the silent face and its myriad expressions. We had faces!” So says Norma Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson, in the 1950 classic, Sunset Boulevard. “The Face of Fear: Faces in Gothic Horror Films”, Presented by Icy Sedgwick Part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. ![]()
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