128. The Politics of Horror, Pt. 4!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and David wrap up our 4-part series on the politics of horror by talking about horror movies and disability, plus horror movies and the domestic space!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/c/pickmeupimscared/posts

SOURCES:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/08/one-of-us-tod-brownings-freaks-disability-culture-and-the-criterion-for-inclusion/

https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/how-horror-movies-have-changed-since-their-beginning/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/431308?read-now=1&seq=8#page_scan_tab_contents

https://daily.jstor.org/the-horror/

https://medusacreatives.com/2020/10/31/normal-people-dont-scare-me-a-history-of-ableism-in-the-horror-genre/

https://collider.com/horror-movies-transphobia/

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https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transpop-suicide-press-release/

https://cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.2/5_Miller.pdf

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https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/revealing-horrors-problematic-past-the-black-guy-dies-first/

https://www.frieze.com/article/unmasking-hollywood-horrors-racial-stereotypes

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https://dainealmaclean.medium.com/the-american-home-invasion-film-and-the-history-of-racial-and-social-exclusion-in-the-pursuit-of-87d02c6f514d

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:29.5	I'm your co-host, David. Talking loudly.
0:35.3	Yes. Well, people used to complain David was too quiet, or too loud, and now people are saying that David's too quiet.
0:42.1	I, you know, I would like to invite the entirety of the Patreon into the room with us to situate me in relation to the microphone.
0:47.2	I think that can be arranged.
0:48.1	Like physically just like hold me in the position they want.
0:52.0	I think that's fair.
0:53.2	I think that would be fun. That's like a meet and greet
0:55.3	idea. We could do that as like a new tier. Yeah, new tier of the Patreon. Pay $100 and you can come over to
1:01.9	my house and help us record. That's like just labor exploitation though. Then we just exploited labor.
1:07.7	I'm, you know, I'm all about the Benjamin's.
1:11.2	You are, yes.
1:11.9	We have become capitalist overnight.
1:13.9	No, there's like a rumor.
1:15.7	Okay, so basically when everybody on the internet got mad at me for not being a Democrat, I also...
1:19.9	Madeline.
1:20.9	Huh.
1:21.6	Everybody?
1:22.9	Do you mean a few stringy-haired Portlandians?
1:28.3	I do. I do.
1:29.3	I do.
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