Bela and Boris on You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth explores the lives and careers of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on You Must Remember This.
“In Defense of Villainesses”
“Why is it that I can easily remember the faces and voices of female cartoon villains, but if asked about female cartoon heroes, all I can remember is the clothes?” More on cartoon villainesses from Sarah Gailey at Tor.com. (Thanks, Adele!)
“Same Stereotypes, Different Name.”
At Film School Rejects, Ciara Wardlow writes about “A Century of Female Fandom” and the stereotypes female fans have faced for the last hundred years or so. “[T]he biggest change from the 1910s criticisms of female fandom and the 2010s criticisms of female fandom is that while, in […]
Toho Monster Roll Call!
Friend of the Gutter Brian Kirby has made a swank roll call for Toho Monsters. Download a high resolution copy of the poster for free!
So Many Musicals!
The Vulture has a list of fifty swell-looking non-Holllywood, non-English musicals for your perusal!
“What of the Fans?”
Friend of the Gutter Jared Shurin shares an editorial from the 1953 Journal of Science Fiction at Pornokitsch. “I can’t vouch for the tone of the first three, as I’ve not found them yet, but the fourth is a corker. Whether the JSF was established with this particular […]
The Cultural Gutter 