88: The Fascinating Rise of the Horror Genre—Dr. E. Michael Jones

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🗓️ 14 August 2018

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Ever wonder about the origins of scary movies and disturbing novels? E. Michael Jones, founder and editor of Culture Wars www.culturewars.com magazine and the author of over a dozen books on Catholic faith and culture, locates the horror genre in the chaotic wake of the Enlightenment.

The first horror novel is considered to be Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus. Most people are unaware of the severely dysfunctional, occultic, and thoroughly Enlightenment family context in which Mary Shelley was raised and into which she married (her family history and that of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s read like a bad novella).

These people embraced the political and sexual revolution ignited by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Bad consequences were the result. Much of this trauma and chaos got internalized by writers and artists and the horror genre was born, beginning with Frankenstein and then extended by Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

In this episode you will learn:

Why the hidden history of horror in film and fiction is tied to revolution, first, the French, then the Russian, and then the Sexual Revolution
How artists who rationalized their own sexual misbehavior told stories that covertly revealed the cost of disobeying the dictates of conscience
The connection between The Creature of the Black Lagoon (1854) and The Shape of Water (2017)
The role that abandonment from the Christian, hence reasonable, view of sexual expression played in the rise of the horror films of the 70s and 80s
The way in which many horror films are actually highly moralistic
How Dracula is a reworked version of Christianity (hint: it’s all about the meaning of blood—shedding vs sucking)

Resources recommended in this episode:

Monsters From the Id: The Rise of Horror in Film and Fiction by E. Michael Jones

Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control by E. Michael Jones

Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 88 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:04.0	I'm Dr. Jordan B Peterson.
0:06.0	Clean up your damn room.
0:08.0	Stand up straight with your shoulders back
0:10.0	and listen to the Patrick Coffin Show. Thank you, Dr. Peterson.
0:15.0	This is the Patrick Coffin Show.
0:16.0	Today we're going to talk about the rise of horror, the horror genre.
0:20.0	What was a reaction to?
0:21.0	Why are horror movies so popular today?
0:23.9	When did they first start and what can we call the first work of horror?
0:27.9	We're going to talk about the story behind the story and dig into lots of fun things.
0:30.9	So get your movie nerd on and we'll be right back straight
0:34.4	after these short brief pithy words. Our guest today is Dr. E Michael Jones. He is the editor of Culture Wars
0:48.4	magazine and the author of over a dozen books including Baron Medal, Dionysius Rising, Labido Dominandi, and the book into
0:56.7	which we shall dig today Monsters of the Id, The Rise of Horror in Fiction in Film.
1:01.2	Dr. Jones, thanks for being with us.
1:03.0	Thank you, Patrick, good to be here.
1:05.0	I first encountered your work at Franciscan University of Steubenville where we were assigned
1:09.4	degenerate moderns, moderns, modernity as rationalized Sexual Misbehavior, and a book I've re-read, especially the Luther
1:16.1	Legacy chapter.
1:18.6	Was that book the first time that you began to notice the underbelly of stories or the underbelly of in this case
1:27.6	rationalized sexual misbehavior because you've you've got the surfacey
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