Picturing Scary Places: the Horror Genre and Mental Illness Review of Disability Studies Interview with Perry Blackshear

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Raphael Raphael
Adjunct Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Associate Editor of Creative Works and Multimedia, Review of Disability Studies

Keywords

Film, horror, interview, mental illness, schizophrenia

Abstract

An RDS interview with Perry Blackshear, director of the acclaimed horror film They Look Like People. In this conversation, the director addresses his process making the film, how it is defined generically, and anecdotal experiences of ways in which some viewers affected by mental illness have experienced the film.
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References

Blackshear, Perry (Director). Evan Dumouchel, MacLeod Andrews, and Margaret Ying Drake (Performers). (2015). They Look Like People. United States: Gravitas Ventures.

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Published
Jun 1, 2017

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Issue
Vol. 13 No. 2
Section
Multimedia

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Author Biography

Raphael Raphael, Adjunct Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Associate Editor of Creative Works and Multimedia, Review of Disability Studies

Raphael Raphael is a film and media scholar whose most recent work, Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque (with Sophia Siddique) (2016), looks at intersections of the horror genre, disability and trauma across borders. Other writing includes Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture (2013) with Russell Meeuf and contributions to the Encyclopedia of American Disability History and Modern Language Association's Teaching Film (2012). His scholarship is also informed by his own practice as digital artist.