Tag: survival horror

• Carpenter’s The Thing and Politics of Paranoia

  

  In the thirty-fifth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome friend of the podcast, and unofficial third host, Joe Belfeuil to discuss the influential horror film that is John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). In this episode, the three discuss how the narrative and craft of the film has inspired a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 1, 2017

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Uncategorized

  alien invasion, Cold War, Darwinian evolution, diagesis, Donald Trump, horror, John Carpenter, masculinity, paranoia, Ronald Reagan, survival horror, survival of the fittest, The Thing, vigilance