Our first analysis episode! The second episode of The Fear and Now is an in-depth look at the podcast The Horrors of Dolores Roach from Gimlet Media. Written by Aaron Mark and starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale, this horror fiction podcast represents a radical weaponization of intimate aesthetics that we'll be looking at in comparison to radio drama programs like Lights Out and Suspense. On this episode we're covering cannibalism, audioposition, complicity, white guilt and gentrification.

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WORKS CITED:
Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Duke University Press, 1995.

Hand, Richard. Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952. MacFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, 2006

McCracken, Allison. “Scary Women and Scared Men: Suspense, Gender Trouble, and Postwar Change, 1942-1950” in Michele Hilmes (ed.) Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of    Radio. Routledge, 2002, 183-208.

Verma, Neil. Theatre of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama. University  of Chicago Press, 2012.


Radio/Podcasts Cited:
“The Horror of Dolores Roach” Gimlet. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/dolores-roach

“Lights Out - "It Happened" 05/11/38 (HQ) Old Time Radio/Horror” YouTube. Uploaded by AntiqueRadios, 15 January 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaG3P9tb3q8

“Suspense | Ep311 | "Little Piece of Rope" ” YouTube. Uploaded by Old Time Radio Podcasts, 28 Jan 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAqFq-fFiEw. Accessed 12 Jan, 2020