In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2013 film The Conjuring.
Episode Highlights: We discuss how the film plays with the idea of the grotesque (particularly as it pertains to female bodies), how the film's focus on the events from the perspective of the Warrens drastically changes the source of horror, and how the film's ultimately affirmative stance ensures--in our opinion--that the film remains competent but not necessarily great. 
A Dose of Scholarship: Mikhail Bakhtin's 1965 book Rabelais and His World is the perfect place to begin thinking about the grotesque body as a culturally constructed space. 
This podcast episode first aired on August 18, 2020
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