Scaffold: Journal of the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts and Culture

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Scaffold is the interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal for the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University, Canada, run by graduate students, and hosts host conversations about alternate ways to ‘do’ academia.

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Self-Fashioning Styles of Flesh: Liminal Gender Performance in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Ever since its release in 1974, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has occupied a unique place in cinematic horror. While the film was initially shunned by critics, it has since gained academic supporters such as Robin Wood and Janet Staiger,...

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“A Beast I Am, lest a Beast I Become” – Tabletop Role-Playing Games Vampires and the Questioning of Power

Bram Stoker's late-Victorian gothic take on the figure of the vampire revealed its many ambiguous facets and opened up new avenues for future exploration. His Dracula is first and foremost a menacing figure from the margins of the West, invading the...

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…of the Dead: The Rhizomatic Turn in Tales of the Zombie

Contagion increasingly overlays other social concerns infecting our world, such as racial oppression and climate crises, and thus renders all other issues invisible. The rhizombie, however, is a theoretical framework that posits contagion as intercon...

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From Cruel to Cultured: The Progression of the Contemporary Cannibal from the Rainforest to the Concrete Jungle in Contemporary Horror Media

 Many consider cannibalism as the ultimate taboo separating man from beast. Depictions of the man-eater became popularized onscreen in the Italian cannibal films of the early 1980’s- while films like Cannibal Holocaust (1980) depict cannibals as...

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The Ever-Changing “Shape” of Evil: The Halloween Franchise as a Mirror of Suburban American Anxiety

The Halloween franchise has been a box-office dynamo for nearly half a century. Its iconic villain, Michael Myers, has achieved a level of pop culture notoriety so great that even people who have never seen any of the thirteen Halloween films will re...

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“I didn’t sin, momma”: Female monstrosity and feminist complexities in Carrie (1976) and Carrie (2013)

This chapter analyzes Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie (2013) in contrast to Stephen King’s novel (1974) and Brian De Palma’s film (1976) to trace the evolution of horror and its engagement with feminist discourse over time, situating Peirce’s approach withi...

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Ghosts, Ghouls, and Girls in White: Colonial Allegories of Filipino Horror

For three hundred years, the modern nation state of the Philippines was under Spanish colonial rule, bringing with it the introduction of Catholicism, which would shape the ways in which Filipinos embody their relationships with the world around them...

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Viral Horror: Host and the Fear of Infection During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 global pandemic foregrounded anxieties about bodies, particularly the infection, suffering, and death of the body. As a body genre, horror is especially adept at addressing these anxieties by affecting the spectator’s body through the ex...

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Introduction:

The evolution of Western horror is a vast and deep topic for which there may be no end, but these pieces provide an excellent starting point. While the subsequent pages might not free horror from generic margins, the following pages combine a series...