In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street. 
Episode Highlights: We argue that it is possible to read this film both as an affirmative film (ultimately supporting the status quo) and a disaffirmative film (ultimately saying that "we" are the real monsters). Exploring the film's ambiguous treatment of the patriarchal figure, its conflation of the house in the suburbs with the boiler room of Freddy, and the ways it treats death, we explore how this film manages to offer us multiple, sometimes contradictory perspectives. Also, Anthony tells his horror origin story.
A Dose of Scholarship: We discuss David Kingsley's 2013 article in Journal of Popular Film and Television, which looks at how this film draws heavily on  the Gothic tradition and Jonathan Markovitz's 2000 article in Quarterly Review of Film and Video on female paranoia as a survival skill.
This podcast episode first aired on March 08, 2021
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