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Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

10/23/2024 • 72 min

Earlier this month, Phil and JF recorded a live episode at Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington following a screening of John Carpenter's film In the Mouth of Madness. Carpenter’s cult classic obliterates the boundary between reality and fiction, madness and revelation—an ideal subject for a Weird Studies conversation. In this episode, recorded before a live… Play episode

Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form
Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot
The Beauty and the Horror
Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'
On Free Expression
Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness
Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot
The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War
Scene of the Crime: On Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'
Mid-Hiatus Bonus: On Horror and the Retail Experience
The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
Three Songs, with Meredith Michael
As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'
Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'
The Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'
Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'
Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI
Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement
The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale
The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Instit…
Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"
Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
You Must Change Your Life
An Air of Great Power: On the Chariot in the Tarot
Waiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"
On Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' and 'The Hellbound Heart,' with Conner Habib
On UFOs
The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"
Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away'
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Yours and Yours Alone: On the Death Card in the Tarot
The Weird Studies Christmas Special
Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
The Things That Were And Shall Be Again: On 'Evil Dead II'
On 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson
On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'

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