Captainscruptious - Just Here To Linger Like The Pest I Am

hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror. 

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009

Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it. 

DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(

Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!

Blahaj in a suit

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dream of better lives // the kind which never hates ☀️☀️☀️

Rich Chocolate Ice Cream

What people think why i became a bookbinder: Oh she wants to explore her artistic horizon with those pretty leather bound books of hers. She even gives them out as gifts to her friends. It most likely helps her with anxiety or maybe she just wanted a more special costume made notebook.

Why I actually became a bookbinder: I just illegally downloaded and printed out several of my favourite fanfics and books and started binding them into books cuz I love reading them but looking at screens for too long gives me headaches.

Wicked City (1987) dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri

"Prior to the 1500s there were no female artists."

Hahahahahahhaha.

Yeah, no, you want to go? LET’S GO.

Bourgot Le Noir • Nun Claricia • Diemoth (also called Diemud/Diemudis) • Agnes II Abbess of Quedlinburg • Anastasia • Claricia • Herrad of Landsberg • Ende • Guda • Abbess Hitda of Meschede • Hildegard of Bingen • Helena of Egypt, daughter of Timon of Egypt • Aristarete • Timarete • Alcisthene • Eirene • Anaxandra • Lala de Cizique • Iaia of Cyzicus • Frögärd Ulvsdotter i Ösby • Maria Ormani • Catherine of Bologna • the daughter of Butades (Kora/Callirhoe) • Lala • Sabrina von Steinbach • Kallo • Cirene, daughter of Kratinos • Calypso • Olympias • Amalasuntha • Laodicia • Herlindis of Maaseik • Relindis of Maaseik • Gisela of Kerzenbroeck • Zaynab al-Maqdisiyya • Fatimah Bint al'Aqra’ • unidentified prehistoric female artists, “Spotted Horses” mural • Onorata Rodiani • Mechthild of Hackeborn 

Also consider that there are a huge number of names missing - women did not always sign or receive credit for their work; earlier art may be pre- written language, may have been lost or destroyed, or may no longer be attributed by name.  Drawings of artists in ancient Greece in vase-making workshops, for instance, show both men and women painting designs.

The nature of white male academia and museum culture has also affected what we preserve and label, and even what we consider ‘valuable’ art, prioritizing the public (large murals and paintings) that Western women were socially not accepted to create over the private such as embroideries that were devalued and demoted to being ‘craft’ because of their associations with women.  Apologies for the primarily white and Western focus in this list, as biases in art historical documentation make it very difficult to properly identify by name pre-1500s female artists of color.

Here, have some essays:

Where Are Women in the History of Art?

Where Are All the Famous Women Artists?

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Feminist Critique of Art History

Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence

Examining the Exclusion of Women From Art Historical Documentation

Brushed Off: Women Artists and Their Fight for Recognition

Old Masters: Overlooked Woman Artists

Old Boys Club: What’s a Female Artist to Do?

The Medieval Feminist Art History Project

The Lack of Progress For Women in the Art World

A Woman’s Touch: Prehistoric Cave Paintings Were Made by Women as Well as Men, Scientists, Discover