In this episode, we are BACK from our break and ready to get bloody with starting our WEIRD GIRL series. We will be discussing Sad Girl Theory and the Female Mutilator in the films MAY (2002) and EXCISION (2012).
Enjoy and welcome to our dark side…
Intro/Outro Music: Kiss of the Creature by Dance with the Dead
Artwork by: Jess Hrycyk
Editing work by: Jessica
LINKS TO PODCAST APPS/WHERE CAN LISTEN:
THE SPINSTER’S LIBRARY
Tunnicliffe, Ava. “Artist Audrey Wollen on the Power of Sadness” Nylon.com https://www.nylon.com/articles/audrey-wollen-sad-girl-theory
Nishimoto, Stacey. “Art Now: Audrey Wollen” Into The Gloss.com https://intothegloss.com/2015/01/audrey-wollen/
Levis, Amber. “A Pathetic Aesthetic” The Crimson.com https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/27/sad-girl-aesthetic/
Watson, Lucy. “How Girls are Finding Empowerment through being sad online” Dazed Digital.com
Serpa, Rebecka & Savannah Moscon, “What does she see in the serial killer? The psychology of morbid curiosity.” Loins Talk Science.org
Stopenski, Carina. “ Exploring Mutilation: Women, Affect, and the Body Horror Genre”
Burkeman, Oliver. “The Column will change your life: morbid curiosity” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/27/morbid-curiosity-change-life-burke
Martin, Kristen. “Why We Love - and Need to Leave Behind - Dead Girl Stories” Lit Hub. https://lithub.com/why-we-love-and-need-to-leave-behind-dead-girl-stories/
Fanelli, Brain. “Lucky McKee’s May and the Retelling of Frankenstein for the Indie Rom-Com Era” Bright Lights Film Journal
Britten, Grace. “Excision: Devotion to the Bloody Self” Ghouls Magazine https://www.ghoulsmagazine.com/articles/excision-devotion-to-the-bloody-self
NEXT MONTH’S EPISODE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Next month we are heading BACK in time to the 1960s for our PART 2 of the KNOW YOUR ROOTS: The Origins of Horror series!
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