Articles Tagged Sanctum

PODCAST: Hell Is For Hyphenates – David Cronenberg

This month I joined Lee Zachariah and Paul Anthony Nelson in an illuminating discussion on the work of Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg for their podcast Hell Is For Hyphenates. Download or play the podcast on the link below: Hell Is For Hyphenates – February 2011 Edition: David Cronenberg

ANALYSIS: ‘There’s No God Down Here’: Maternal Absence and Abjection in ‘Sanctum’

In her gender analysis of Aliens (1986) Barbara Creed notes how the “dark and slimy” interior spaces of the Alien Queen’s egg chamber “offer a nightmarish vision of what [Julia] Kristeva describes as ‘the fascinating and abject inside of the maternal body’” (1993:51). The mise-en-scène of Aliens (where this viscous-coated lair is contrasted with the […]