The Miskatonic Institute Announces Spring Semester 2021
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies announced today their Spring 2021 Semester of Lectures. As we enter the second (and hopefully final) year of the pandemic crisis, lectures for all our branches will be online for this semester.
The world’s longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history, theory and production, announced 15 new classes, led by critics, academics, and writers, with ideas that will delight, inspire, and expand our knowledge and understanding of horror in art and culture.
Miskatonic London opens their semester with a class on the newly rediscovered Shirley Jackson and her importance in horror texts. The branch will also host classes on representations of Haiti in American horror cinema, the great Hammer horror films that never were, the mashing of monsters in screen history, and the horror of British author Shaun Hutson.
Miskatonic New York begins with the amazing story of horror zines, then dives into an exploration of the franchise in Spanish horror cinema. They’ll be in urban territory exploring terror and the high-rise edifice, then the “rural” in Antarctica, exploring the unknowable in abject horror. The branch will conclude with a look at the classic thriller The Vanishing, and existential dread in horror.
Miskatonic Los Angeles first will take you to early 20th century Japan and the writing of Edogawa Rampo, before whisking back home for a masterclass with legendary effects artist Rick Baker. They’ll then head to Europe, with a look at Italian horror comics, then in Germany for the legend of Walpurgisnacht. They’ll finish the semester with an investigation into trans and gender-non-conforming bodies in horror cinema.
The Institute will once again be offering a Global Pass for US$90, which offers a discount to attend all 15 Miskatonic classes in the Spring 2021 semester, as well as the City Branch Pass (£30 for London, US$40 each for New York and Los Angeles), and individual tickets to each class (£8 for London, US$10 each for New York and Los Angeles). Please note that all classes will take place in the time zone of their Branch affiliation; be sure you can attend before booking (and watch out for daylight saving time changes!), as all sales are final.
Full details of classes and links to passes and tickets are available on their website, www.miskatonicinstitute.com.
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