#grafius

[arcanespillo]

Both religious experience and horror are characterized as encounters with something simultaneosly awesome and awful

from "Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination" by B.R. Grafius, J. Morehead, M. Adams and others

[blood-first]

The dehumanizing descriptions have the effect of turning an enemy into a monster: now that the enemy is no longer human, all violence used to defend against the monstrous threat is justified.

Brandon R. Grafius, Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible.

[daweyt]

what's on your tbr pile ? i need recommendations and to discover new books what do u have ?

*(note that some of these were originally written in french so in french will i read them)

Georges Bataille, “Erotism: Death and Sensuality”*

Georges Bataille, “Literature and Evil”*

Michel Leiris, “Mirror of Tauromachy”*

Brandon R. Grafius, “Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible”

Ryan S. Higgins, “The Good, the God, and the Ugly: The Role of the Beloved Monster in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible”

Timothy Beal, “Religion and Its Monsters”

Heraclitus, “The Cosmic Fragments”

Martin Heidegger, “Heraclitus Seminar”

Paula Findlen, “Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything”

Giordano Bruno, “Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic”

[sabliconcept]

Effect of Parental Component Complementation on Yield and Components of Yield in Barley

Written by: J.E Grafius, Roger L. Thomas, and John Barnard ABSTRACT: Five parental pairs of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) were selected on the basis of wife differences in heads/30cm of row (X), kernels/head (Y), and mg/kernel (Z). The crosses and backcrosses to each parent were allowed to self to equivalent of the fourth generation F4 at which time 20 random selections were drawn from each…

[rotgospels]

In Cowan’s handling, horror movies do not simply use religious imagery; they are, themselves, religious texts. This is not to say that horror is itself a form of religion; rather, horror emerges from the same well of human imagination.

Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead, Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination 

[everydayhybridity]

My book review of Brandon Grafius’s exploration of Robert Eggers cult folk horror film The Witch (2015) for the Journal of Religion and Film.

[weirdletter]

Revenant, Issue 5: Folk Horror. Edited by Ruth Heholt, guest editor: Dawn Keetley, March 2020. Info and free download: revenantjournal.com.

Revenant is a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to the study of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird in any form and in any period. Committed to the scholarly, academic and creative exploration of the supernatural in its multiple, variable and fantastic forms this inter-disciplinary journal encourages discussion about the supernatural or the weird in literature, history, folklore, philosophy, science, religion, sociology and all aspects of popular culture. All areas of discussion are welcome and we invite for example discussions of classic Victorian ghost stories, articles about Shakespeare’s ghosts, standing stones, architecture, film, television, games or new media. Revenant promotes new writing on the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird and we are looking to publish ghost stories, tales of the extraordinary, poems and nature writing. Encouraging a cross-theoretical approach the super-natural may also be explored in relation to gender, sexuality, spirituality, post-colonialism, Marxism or eco-criticism. Revenant emphasises that the ‘natural’ is part of the super-natural and continues a long tradition of both serious and imaginative investigation.

Contents:

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University

Articles A FEAR OF THE FOLK: ON TOPOPHOBIA AND THE HORROR OF RURAL LANDSCAPES – James Thurgill, The University of Tokyo FOLK HORROR, OSTENSION AND ROBIN REDBREAST – Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University IDENTITY AND FOLK HORROR IN JULIAN RICHARDS’ DARKLANDS – Cary Edwards, Boston College, UK ‘A LOST, HAZY DISQUIET’: SCARFOLK, HOOKLAND, AND THE ‘HAUNTED GENERATION’ – David Sweeney, The Glasgow School of Art FOLK HORROR IN THE OZARKS: THE GENRE HYBRIDITY OF DEBRA GRANIK’S WINTER’S BONE – Beth Kattelman, The Ohio State University SUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE IN THE BLAIR WITCH FILMS: NEW PROJECT, NEW PROOF – Peter Turner, Oxford Brookes University COLONISING THE DEVIL’S TERRITORIES: THE HISTORICITY OF PROVIDENTIAL NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE IN THE VVITCH – Brendan C. Walsh, University of Queensland DREAMING OF LEVIATHAN: JOHN LANGAN’S THE FISHERMAN AND AMERICAN FOLK HORROR – Alexandra Hauke, University of Passau

Creative Work CAMPUS VISIT – D.K. Picariello, Writer

Reviews INTERVIEW WITH ADAM NEVILL, AUTHOR OF THE RITUAL (2011) – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University THE GOTHIC AND THE CARNIVALESQUE IN AMERICAN CULTURE BY TIMOTHY JONES – Christopher M. Flavin, Northeastern State University FOLK HORROR: HOURS DREADFUL AND THINGS STRANGE BY ADAM SCOVELL & FOLK HORROR REVIVAL: FIELD STUDIES (SECOND EDITION) EDITED BY ANDY PACIOREK, GREY MALKIN, RICHARD HING AND KATHERINE PEACH – Paul Gorman, Writer WITCHFINDER GENERAL BY IAN COOPER – Brandon Grafius, Ecumenical Theological Seminary HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: SUPER-NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, RUTH HEHOLT AND NIAMH DOWNING (EDITORS) – Janine Hatter, University of Hull STARVE ACRE BY ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University MODERN GHOST MELODRAMAS: WHAT LIES BENEATH BY MICHAEL WALKER – Murray Leeder, University of Calgary BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS BY FABIEN VEHLMANN AND KERASCOËT; TRANS. HELGE DASCHER – Daniel Pietersen, Independent Scholar AMERICAN GOTHIC CULTURE: AN EDINBURGH COMPANION, JOEL FAFLAK AND JASON HASLAM (EDITORS) – Jillian Wingfield, University of Hertfordshire FOLK HORROR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFERENCE REPORT – Dorka Tamás, University of Exeter

Notes on Contributors

[mitchipedia]

The Curse of The Curse – Great episode of the Imaginary Worlds podcast: filmmaker Jay Cheel talks about his new documentary series “Cursed Films,” which explores why people think movies like The Exorcist, The Omen, and other horror films were cursed – targeted by demonic forces. Also, special effects artist Craig Reardon and director Gary Sherman separate fact from fiction with the alleged Poltergeist curse. And theologian Brandon Grafius, author of “Reading the Bible with Horror,” describes horror’s Biblical connections.

[talmidimblogging]

When Bible Met Horror

My colleague (if I may be so bold) Brandon Grafius has recently published a piece titled “What Can Horror Teach Us about the Bible?” in Sojourners.  Brandon and I have never met in person, but we’ve worked together a number of times.  We share an interest in horror and we both teach/taught Hebrew Bible.  We’re […]When Bible Met Horror

[arcanespillo]

from "Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination" by B.R. Grafius, J. Morehead, M. Adams and others

[wildestdays]

Survey of Grafius Run damage begins with horror tale of <b>sewage</b>

“Surface water I can deal with … it's the sewage and not being able to use the bathroom when you need it,” said Wahneeta Welter, 81, of 503 ... from Google Alert - sewage https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2018/07/survey-of-grafius-run-damage-begins-with-horror-tale-of-sewage/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmU0OWEzNWRjZTA0MTI3ZTg6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHyW0Xjkeo0ELNEUCp-sV4xuKqgKg

[punkasjunk]

Survey of Grafius Run damage begins with horror tale of <b>sewage</b>

Two residents living in the 500 block of Hawthorne Avenue said water and waste system overflows have gotten into their homes during floods of ... from Google Alert - sewage system https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2018/07/survey-of-grafius-run-damage-begins-with-horror-tale-of-sewage/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjBmYTExMmY5ODc5OTYxMmI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHyW0Xjkeo0ELNEUCp-sV4xuKqgKg

[rotgospels]

can u post the links for the biblical horror theory 👀

i’m only in the beginnings of research so i haven’t read most of these but so far i have:

George Aichele, Film Theory and Biblical Studies

Ryan S. Higgins, “The Good, the God, and the Ugly: The Role of the Beloved Monster in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.” 

Timothy Beal, Religion and Its Monsters

Kelly J. Murphy, “Leviathan to Lucifer: What Biblical Monsters (Still) Reveal”

Brandon R. Grafius, “Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible”

Amy Kalmanofsky, Terror All Around: The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah (Haven’t been able to find this yet!) 

Brian Doak, Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job

[weirdletter]

The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption, edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., McFarland, 2020. Cover image by Shutterstock, info: mcfarlandbooks.

Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical acclaim and heaps of contempt for its reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s seminal horror novel. Some found Mike Flanagan’s series inventive, respectful and terrifying. Others believed it denigrated and diminished its source material, with some even calling it a ‘betrayal’ of Jackson. Though the novel has produced a great deal of scholarship, this is the first critical collection to look at the television series. Featuring all new essays from noted scholars and award-winning horror authors, this collection goes beyond comparing the novel and the Netflix adaptation to look at the series through the lenses of gender, architecture, education, hauntology, addiction, and trauma studies including analysis of the show in the context of 9/11 and #Me Too. Specific essays compare the series with other texts, from Flanagan’s other films and other adaptations of Jackson’s novel, to the television series Supernatural, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the 2018 film Hereditary. Together, this collection probes a terrifying television series about how scary reality can truly be, usually because of what it says about our lives in America today.

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction—Holding Darkness Within: Welcome to Hill House – Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.     I. Jackson and Flanagan The Hunters and the Haunted: The Changing Role of Supernatural Investigation – Steve Marsden Hijacking Jackson: Adapting Mike Flanagan’s Oculus – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns     II. The House It’s Coming from Inside the House: Houses as Bodies Without Organs – Matt Bernico A House Without Kindness: Hill House and the Phenomenology of Horrific Space – Zachary Sheldon     III. The Trauma Some Things Can’t Be Told: Gothic Trauma – Jeanette A. Laredo Recovery from Trauma in Post–9/11 Horror/Terror of Mike Flanagan’s Oeuvre – Aaron K.H. Ho Education, Praxis and Healing – Elizabeth Laura Yomantas “A House Is Like a Body”: Processes of Grief and Trauma – Dana Jeanne Keller     IV. The Haunted Mike Flanagan’s ­Mold-Centric The Haunting of Hill House – Dawn Keetley Where the Heart Is – Alex Link The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Hauntology, Grief and Lost Futures – Melissa A. Kaufler Ghosts of Future Past: Spatial and Temporal Intersections – Adam Daniel     V. Gender and Queering Red Room, Red Womb: Phantom Feminism – Elsa M. Carruthers The Horrific Feminine: Terrifying Women – Camille S. Alexander Haunted Families, Queer Temporalities and the Horrors of Normativity – Emily E. Roach     VI. Comparative Hauntings “Came Back Haunted”: International Horror Film Conventions – Thomas Britt The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood – Rhonda Jackson Joseph The Madwoman in the Parlor: Motherhood and the Ghost of Mental Disorder in Hill House and Hereditary – Maria Giakaniki Family Remains: Family Bonds Against the Paranormal in The Haunting of Hill House and Supernatural – Melania Paszek “They Never Believe Me”: Discourses of Belief in Hill House and #Me Too – Brandon R. Grafius     VII. Horror Makers on The Haunting of Hill House A Ghost Is a Wish Your Heart Makes – Christa Carmen The Screaming Meemies Resurrected – Angie Martin What Really Walks There? – Tim Waggoner Spirits and Mediums: Adapting Jackson – Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Gothic Storytelling – John Palisano About the Contributors Index of Terms

[weirdletter]

Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture), edited by Victoria McCollum, Routledge, 2019. Info: routledge.com.

Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump’s Presidency of the United States. Exploring horror’s renewed potential for political engagement in a socio-political climate characterised by the angst of civil conflict, the deception of ‘alternative facts’ and the threat of nuclear or biological conflict and global warming, Make America Hate Again examines the intersection of film, politics, and American culture and society through a bold critical analysis of popular horror (films, television shows, podcasts and online parodies), such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, American Horror Story, Don’t Breathe, Get Out, Hotel Transylvania 2, Hush, It, It Comes at Night, South Park, The Babadook, The Walking Dead, The Woman, The Witch and Twin Peaks: The Return. The first major exploration of the horror genre through the lens of the Trump era, it investigates the correlations between recent, culturally meaningful horror texts, and the broader culture within which they have become gravely significant. Offering a rejuvenating, optimistic, and positive perspective on popular culture as a site of cultural politics, Make America Hate Again will appeal to scholars and students of American studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies.

Contents: List of Figures Foreword – Kendall Phillips List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction – Victoria McCollum     Part 1: ‘Drain the Swamp […] We All Float Down Here!’ The Evil Clown Archetype, Trump’s Circus of Cruelty and the Freak Show of US Politics in American Horror 1. ÒLet’s Put a Smile on that Face:Ó Trump, the Psychotic Clown and the History of American Violence – Scott Poole 2. Shilling Pennywise: Chump Change in Trump’s (Trans)America – Theresa L. Geller     Part 2: ‘A (Nasty) Woman’s Place is in the Resistance!’ Trump’s War on Women, ‘Pussy’ Grabs Back and Queer Horror Steps Out of the Shadows 3. Breaking Out and Fighting Back: Female Resistance in the Trump-Era Horror Film – Joshua Gulam 4. An End to Monstrosity: Horror, Queer Representation, and the Trump Kakistocracy – Marshall Moore 5. Trauma, Repression and The Babadook: Sexual Identity in the Trump Era – Fran Pheasant-Kelly     Part 3: ‘We All Bleed Red!’ Of God and Monsters, Targeted Bodies and Metaphorical Walls in Trump-Era Horror 6. Lock Her Up! Angry Men and the Captive Woman in Post-Recession Horror – Dawn Keetley 7. ÒI Told You Not To Go Into That HouseÓ: Get Out and Horror’s Racial Politics – Christopher Lloyd 8. Securing the Borders: Isolation and Anxiety in The Witch, It Comes at Night, and Trump’s America – Brandon Grafius     Part 4: ‘You’ve Been Trump’d […] Get Out (of the White House)!Ó Animated Alternatives and Horror-Centric Parodies and Podcasts, Reimagined ˆ la Trump 9. Trump’s Great American Family: Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in Hotel Transylvania 2 – Simon Bacon 10. South Park: Trump, Technology and the Uncanny – Christian HŠnggi 11. Get Out (of the White House): The Trump Administration and YouTube Horror Parody as Social Commentary – James West 12. Beware the Untruths: Podcast Audio Horror in Post-Truth America – Richard Hand and Danielle Hancock     Part 5: Now You’re in the Sunken Place… With a Damn Fine Cup of ‘Covfefe’. The Dangers of Nostalgia and the Darkness of Future Past in the Age of Trump 13. ‘There is No Return’: Twin PeaksandThe Horror of Pleasure – Donald L. Anderson 14. ÒIt Is HappeningÉ Again:Ó Trumpism, Uncanny Repetition and Twin Peaks: The Return – Martin Fradley and John A. Riley Index

[jayefeather]

Mayor hands out <b>flood</b> survey in city door-to-door

The distribution of the surveys door-to-door is being done as a needed step to tabulate 10 year's worth of flood damage caused by Grafius Run, ... from Google Alert - water damage https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2018/10/mayor-hands-out-flood-survey-in-city-door-to-door/&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmM1ODA0ODI0ZWVkYWI2OWU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGK7WiGtii0spflVNDANSyaRZNqrQ