{"id":12508,"date":"2015-10-23T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2018-02-05T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:57:17","slug":"the-canadian-horror-film-terror-of-the-soul-book-signing-oct-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12508","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul \u2014 Book Signing Oct. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Freitag_Loiselle<\/a>This weekend marks the official launch of The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul<\/strong>, a new book edited by Andr\u00e9 Loiselle<\/a>\"\" and Gina Freitag<\/a>\"\", and featuring essays by several genre and media writers, including myself (making this page more than a bit of shameful self-promotion).<\/p>\n

The book’s theme is Canadian horror, a topic that isn’t often examined in lengthy tomes, although films fans are well aware we’ve made great films in various genres, languages, and covering more than a few unique episodes in Canadian history.<\/p>\n

But what about horror?<\/p>\n

What about a tome that’s packed with essays on a diversity of Canadian films that reflect our own distinct fears, if not fresh spins on classic sub-genres, or perhaps brand new genres?<\/p>\n

I’m delighted my contribution, an essay on the seminal forest slasher\u00a0Rituals<\/strong> (1977), is in great company, nestled alongside fellow Rue Morgue scribes like\u00a0James Burrell<\/a>, Andrea Subissati<\/a>\"\", and Paul Corupe\"\"<\/a> – plus sage authors Kier-La Janisse<\/a>\"\" and Caelum Vatnsdal<\/a>\"\" and more.<\/p>\n

The book’s contents are divided into six sections:<\/p>\n

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I \u2013 SHAPING THE CANADIAN HORROR LANDSCAPE<\/strong>
\n1. Monsters Up North: A Taxonomy of Terror \u2013 Caelum Vatnsdal
\n2. Viral Culture: Canadian Cultural Protectionism and Pontypool \u2013 Andrea Subissati<\/p>\n

II \u2013 THE TERRITORIES OF HORROR: TERROR STORIES ON PAGE AND SCREEN<\/strong>
\n3. Blood in the Bush Garden: Indigenization, Gender and Unsettling Horror \u2013 Aalya Ahmad
\n4. Pure\u00a0Laine<\/em>\u00a0Evil: The Horrifying Normality of Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Ordinary Hell in the Film Adaptations of Patrick Sen\u00e9cal\u2019s \u2018Romans d\u2019\u00c9pouvante\u2019 \u2013 Andr\u00e9 Loiselle<\/p>\n

III \u2013 A GOLDEN AGE OF GORE: THE TAX SHELTER SLASHER<\/strong>
\n5. (Who\u2019s in the) Driver\u2019s Seat: The Canadian Brute Unleashed in\u00a0Death Weekend<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Paul Corupe
\n6. The Creation and Codification of the Forest Slasher during the Tax Shelter Years 1977\u20131982 \u2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

IV \u2013 THE TRUE NORTH, STRONG AND VIOLENT: ECO-HORROR IN CANADA<\/strong>
\n7. The [Hostile] Nature of Things: A Cultural Dialogue on Environmental Survival \u2013 Gina Freitag
\n8. Eco-Horror and Boundary Transgressions in\u00a0Orca: The Killer Whale<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Peter Thompson<\/p>\n

V \u2013 HORROR BY ANY OTHER NAME: ANIMATION AND THE AVANT GARDE<\/strong>
\n9. A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: The Fear of Selling out in Nelvana\u2019s\u00a0The Devil and Daniel Mouse<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Rock and Rule<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Kier-La Janisse
\n10. Where is Fear? Space, Place, and the Sense of Horror in the Canadian Avant-Garde Film \u2013 Scott Birdwise<\/p>\n

VI \u2013 BLOOD, GUTS, AND BEYOND: AN HOMAGE TO CRONENBERG<\/strong>
\n11. Traces of Horror: the Later Films of David Cronenberg \u2013 Bill Beard
\n12. The Physician as Mad Scientist: A Fear of Deviant Medical Practices in the Films of David Conenberg \u2013 James Burrell
\n13. Contagious Characters: Cronenberg’s Rabid, Demarbre’s Smash Cut and the Reframing of Porn- fame \u2013 Sean Moreland<\/p>\n

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The University of Toronto Press’s The Canadian Horror Film<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0is now available for pre-order from\u00a0local bookshops and online retailers (see end).<\/p>\n

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Also:<\/em> there’s an official book launch at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this Saturday October 24th<\/a>, prior to the free 9pm screening of Canada’s first 3D feature film,\u00a0The Mask<\/strong> (1961), directed by Julian Roffman. The rarely seen shocker (filmed in & around Toronto) was recently restored by TIFF in conjunction with the 3D Film Archive<\/a>, and is slated for a 3D <\/a>Blu-ray release\u00a0November 24th via KINO.<\/p>\n

Present at the screening will be editors \/ co-authors Loiselle and Freitag, plus \u00a0a few co-authors from Rue Morgue, including myself, Andrea Subissati and James Burrell, ready to sign copies of the book. Signings are slated to begin around 8:30pm.<\/p>\n

The book is also available from Amazon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n