Season 5: “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”

Buy Mitch a Coffee account.venmo.com/u/Mitch-Hampton-1 “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre” Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton “Among the many film influences upon my consciousness, the two early films of Wes Craven, Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes have to be included as important. Given that I think the "auteur" theory is partly correct I followed all the pictures he made subsequently in the 1980s and 90s. Will Dodson is among those scholars and intellectuals who takes popular culture most seriously and it was a joy to talk with about some of our common interests and loves.” Will’s Bio and Links: Will Dodson is the Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, where he teaches rhetoric, literature, film and media studies. He is the co-editor of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. His work has been published in Film International, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and elsewhere. His most recent essays are "'Why are You Doing This!?!' Having Flashbacks in The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2," included in ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and "Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven's Television Films," included in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Links to Will’s Social Media and works: https://unity.edu/faculty/dr-will-dodson/ https://twitter.com/wdodson52?lang=en https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP https://www.instagram.com/wdodson52/ Links to Will’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Will-Dodson/author/ B093BKCSVP? isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ref=ap_rdr&is DramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true anthempress.com Link to Will’s Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP/ allbooks? ingress=0&visitId=a9dc8a7d-5468-4ec6-8722- bf894b059594 About the author Dr. Dodson is the Ashby and Strong Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches courses on rhetoric, literature, and film, with a focus on exploitation and marginalized literature and cinema. He has published essays on Tod Browning, Jess Franco, Hugo Haas and Shirley Jackson, and various film genres in edited collections and journals including Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and MONSTRUM. He is the co-editor, with David A. Cook, of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema, a book series on exploitation films and filmmakers and the various ways in which they have subsidized mainstream cinema and culture and have represented marginalized identities. He is the co-editor with Kristopher Woofter of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press, 2021). Most recently, Dodson and Woofter recorded an audio commentary for the Kino-Lorber Blu-ray release of Tobe Hooper's "I'm Dangerous Tonight," for release in July, 2022. Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema - Series - Humanities, Literature and Arts #film #mediastudies #horror #carolclover #genre #bmovies #grindhouse #erotica #susanlucci #nevecampbell #johncarpenter #gothic #drewbarrymore #courteneycox #lindablair #leepurcell #frandrescher #tvmovie #television #wescraven #scream #davidhess #itsonlyamovie #davidarquette #kevinwilliamson #dawsonscreek #michellewilliams #jamesvanderbeek #katieholmes #joshuajackson #paulacole #1970s #1980s #1990s #nightmareonelmstreet #robertenglund #freddiekreuger #johnnydepp #ytk #2000s