{"id":3889,"date":"2017-10-01T01:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:09:51","slug":"video-dungeon-how-to-talk-about-psychotronic-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2017\/10\/video-dungeon-how-to-talk-about-psychotronic-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Dungeon: How to Talk about Psychotronic Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London<\/b>
Instructor:<\/b> Kim Newman
\nDate:<\/b> 12 October 2017
\nTime:<\/b> 7-10pm
\nVenue:<\/b> Horse Hospital<\/a>
\nAddress:<\/b> Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
\nPrices:<\/b> \u00a310 advance \/ \u00a38 concs<\/a> \/ \u00a311 door
\nMiskatonic website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In his introduction to the important collection of film essays King of the Bs<\/i>, Todd McCarthy quotes Andrew Sarris\u2019s dictum \u2018eventually we must speak of everything<\/i> if there is enough time and space and printer\u2019s ink\u2019. Sarris was working up to an assessment of Edgar G. Ulmer\u2019s Daughter of Dr Jekyll<\/i> (1958).<\/p>\n

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In his new book Video Dungeon<\/i><\/a>, Kim Newman has written about ten sub-categories of \u2018everything\u2019 \u2013 from found footage and Bigfoot movies through the weirder appearances of Frankenstein and Dracula and group-of-random-strangers-wake-up-in-a-trap pictures to Weird Hippie Shit and made-for-cable CGI mutant shark or snake attack cinema.<\/p>\n

To launch the book, Kim will be talking about critiquing films some reckon beyond or beneath or outside criticism, illustrated with clips from the weirdest and rarest films. He will consider critical approaches to what Michael Weldon calls \u2018Psychotronic Cinema\u2019 and less perceptive souls write off as \u2018junk\u2019.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll look at the Golden Turkey\/Mystery Science Theatre<\/i> brand of snark, the engaged approach of John Bloom writing as Joe Bob Briggs, fanzine legends like Bill Landis (Sleazoid Express<\/i>), the cataloguing frenzy of Video Watchdog<\/i>, academic and personal approaches from Carol Clover and Kier-La Janisse and curatorships like Cigarette Burns, the Final Girls and the Miskatonic Institute itself.<\/p>\n

About the instructor:<\/b><\/p>\n

Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor<\/i>, Bad Dreams<\/i>, Jago<\/i>, the Anno Dracula<\/i> novels and stories, The Quorum<\/i>, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories<\/i>, Life\u2019s Lottery<\/i>, Back in the USSA<\/i> (with Eugene Byrne), The Man From the Diogenes Club<\/i>, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d\u2019Urbervilles<\/i> and An English Ghost Story<\/i> under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve<\/i> and Orgy of the Blood Parasites<\/i> as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies<\/i>, Ghastly Beyond Belief<\/i> (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books <\/i>(with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies<\/i>, The BFI Companion to Horror<\/i>, Millennium Movies<\/i> and BFI Classics studies of Cat People<\/i>, Doctor Who<\/i> and Quatermass and the Pit<\/i>. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines (writing Empire\u2019s popular Video Dungeon column), has written and broadcast widely, and scripted radio and television documentaries. His stories \u2018Week Woman\u2019 and \u2018Ubermensch\u2019 have been adapted into an episode of the TV series The Hunger and an Australian short film; he has directed and written a tiny film Missing Girl<\/i>; he co-wrote the West End play The Hallowe\u2019en Sessions<\/i>. Following his Radio 4 play \u2018Cry Babies\u2019, he wrote episodes for Radio 7\u2019s series The Man in Black (\u2018Phish Phood\u2019) and Glass Eye Pix\u2019 Tales From Beyond the Pale (\u2018Sarah Minds the Dog\u2019). He scripted (with Maura McHugh) the comic book miniseries Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland <\/i>(Dark Horse), illustrated by Tyler Crook; it\u2019s a spinoff from Mike Mignola\u2019s Hellboy series. His official web-site is at www.johnnyalucard.com. His forthcoming fiction includes the novels The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange<\/i> and Angels of Music<\/i>. He is on Twitter as @AnnoDracula.<\/p>\n

About the Miskatonic Institute:<\/b><\/p>\n

Named for the fictional university in H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s literary mythos, The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is a non-profit, community-based organization that started in Canada, founded by Kier-La Janisse in March of 2010. The school currently has branches in Montreal and London, with Miskatonic London operating under the co-direction of Kier-La Janisse and Electric Sheep Founder\/Editor Virginie S\u00e9lavy.<\/p>\n

All classes take place at the historic Horse Hospital, the heart of the city\u2019s underground culture. Season ticket is \u00a335 and will be available shortly. Individual class tickets are \u00a310 advance \/ \u00a311 on the door \/ \u00a38 concessions and will be available 30 days in advance of each class.<\/p>\n

For full details of the next courses please check the Miskatonic website<\/a>. For all enquiries, please email Miskatonic.london[at]gmail.com.<\/p>\n

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