[ecrea] Film Studies Issue 15 is now available

Manchester University Press are delighted to announce that /Film Studies 
Issue 15 (Autumn 2016) /is now available.

For more information about this journal, click here 
<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/film/>

Articles in this issue (partial list):

Haunted Fascination: Horror, Cinephilia, and Barbara Steele 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/fs>

*Author: *Ian Olney

  Regarded by fans and critics alike as the ‘Queen of Horror’, Barbara 
Steele stands as one of the few bona fida cult icons of the genre, whose 
ability to project an uncanny blend of deathliness and eroticism imbues 
her characters with a kind of necrophiliac appeal. Horror film scholars 
have tended to read Steele’s films in feminist terms, as texts that play 
to our fascination with the monstrous-feminine. This article approaches 
them from a different standpoint – that of cinephilia studies. Steele’s 
cult horror films are at their most basic level horror movies about 
cinephiles cherish. In so doing, they convert Steele into a necrophiliac 
fetish-object, an intoxicating fusion of death and desire. Considering 
Steele’s work from this perspective reveals the fluidity of the boundary 
between horror and cinephilia, demonstrating that horror has some-thing 
important to teach us about cinephilia and cinephilia has something 
important to teach us about horror.

Making Zines: Re-reading European Trash Cinema (1988-98) 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/fs>

*Authors: *Antonio Lazaro-Reboll

Discussion of the horror film fanzine culture of the 1980s and early 
1990s has been dominated by an emphasis on questions around the politics 
of taste, considerations of subcultural capital and cultism in fan 
writing, and processes of cultural distinction and the circulation of 
forms of capital. Sconce’s concept of ‘paracinema’ has come to shape the 
conceptual approach to fanzines. The aim of this article is to refocus 
attention on other areas of fanzine production, providing a more nuanced 
and richer historicisation of these publications and the ways they 
contribute to the circulation, reception and consumption of European 
horror film. Focusing on the fanzine /European Trash cinema/(1988-98) I 
propose a return to the actual cultural object – the printed zine – 
examining the networks of producers converging around, and writing about 
Eurohorror films and related European trash cinematic forms, as well as 
the contents within the publication itself.

Putting the Brit into Eurohorror: Exclusions and exchanges in the 
History of European Horror Cinema 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/manup/fs>

*Author: *Peter Hutchings

British horror cinema is often excluded from critical work dealing with 
European horror cinema, or, as it is frequently referred to, 
‘Eurohorror’. This article argues that such exclusion is unwarranted. 
From the 1950s onwards there have been many exchanges between British 
and continental European-based horror production. These have involved 
not just international co-production deals but also creative personnel 
moving from country to country. In addition, British horror films have 
exerted influence on European horror cinema and vice versa. At the same 
time, the exclusion of British horror from the ‘Eurohorror’ category 
reveals limitations in that category, particularly its idealisation of 
continental European horror production.


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