Biweekly News Roundup 2023-07-09

Personal / Website NewsNew Episode of H.P. Lovecast

Our June Transmissions episode of HP Lovecast is online!

This turned out to be a McFarland-centric episode. We interviewed Sean Woodard about his essay “Journeys into Depravity in (Post)Colonial Australia: Colonizer versus Colonized Identity and “Otherness” in Wake in Fright and The Nightingale” and Josh Spiegel about his book Timelines of Terror: The Fractured Continuities of Horror Film Sequels. The episode can be streamed at our Buzzsprout website, via the player below, or your podcast app of preference.

https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1022692.rssFan2Fan Podcast

The cool kids at the Fan2Fan Podcast are doing a series of episodes about 3D movies. I got to be a guest on an episode talking about the pre-Empire, pre-Full Moon Charles Band movie, Parasite.

The episode can be streamed from the Fan2Fan Libsyn, the embedded player below, or via all the major podcast apps.

https://feeds.libsyn.com/80728/rss

And just for fun, here is my autographed copy of Parasite. I had this signed by Scott Thomson who is better known for his role of Copeland in three Police Academy movies.

Personal copy of Parasite.Scholars from the Edge of Time

June’s Scholars From the Edge of Time is also online at YouTube. Michele and I talk about the Italo dystopian film, Warriors from the Year 2072. Check it out here.

Personal copy of Warriors of the Year 2072.Publishing Recap

Below is a recap of my publishing endeavors so far in 2023.

Published in February, this collection contains my essay “Dance or Dēcēdere: Gladiator and Industrial Music Sampling.”

Vernon Press Product Page

Published in May, this issue of Weird Tales contains my essay “When the Stars are Right.”

Weird Tales Product Page

Published in late March, the first issue of the zine Footage Fiends, contains my essay “Analisi Della Cosa: Found Footage in Caltiki and Italian Theater Going Practices.”

Limited to 50 physical copies.

Order via Patreon.

Miscellaneous TidbitsCFP: Entering the Multiverse

An interesting CFP popped up on my radar that I thought I’d share:

Call for Chapters: Entering the Multiverse, Edited Collection
Editor: Paul Booth, DePaul University

The multiverse is, seemingly, everywhere all at once. The recent success of multiverse focused media across platforms (e.g., films like Everything Everywhere All at Once or Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse; television like the CW/DC multiverse crossovers or the His Dark Materials adaptation; literature like Dark Matter by Blake Crouch or This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; multiple comic book/graphic novel storylines, etc.) speaks to significant issues within contemporary culture. Different from transmedia (one narrative told across media boundaries) or shared universes (spinoffs that take place within the same media universe), multiverse fiction explores alternate realities, multiple canons, and contradictory realities within the confines of one fictional narrative.

In this volume, I hope to encompass the multiplicity of the concept of the multiverse through multiple perspectives. This is a story that can only be told through the edited collection: where each chapter of which advances a theory of the cultural relevance of the multiverse concept while retaining its own unique philosophy or theory.

Chapters can be in whatever form the author thinks best suits the topic: fiction, creative non-fiction, academic essay, comic, poem, etc.

I am particularly interested in the concept of the multiverse across cultural boundaries, nonwestern approaches to the multiverse concept, and multiple iterations of the multiverse.

Chapters may explore, but are certainly not limited to, the following topics:

Scientific explorations of the concept of the multiverseThe multiverse in various media formsDifferent types of multiversesInclusion in multiverse fictionHistorical explorations of the concept of the multiverseMultiversal theoriesPractical applications of multiverse theoryDiversity and the multiverse

Please submit proposals of 300-500 words with a brief biographical statement and contact information via email attachment to Paul Booth at pbooth@depaul.edu no later than Aug 31, 2023. In your proposal, please note what genre you will be writing in. Notice of acceptance will be sent out by Sept 15, 2023. Draft chapters of 5-6,000 words (inclusive of works cited) will be due March 15, 2024.