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Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

Update: 2024-10-23
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Earlier this month, Phil and JF recorded a live episode at Indiana University Cinema in Bloomington following a screening of John Carpenter's film In the Mouth of Madness. Carpenter’s cult classic obliterates the boundary between reality and fiction, madness and revelation—an ideal subject for a Weird Studies conversation. In this episode, recorded before a live audience, the hosts explore the film’s Lovecraftian themes, the porous nature of storytelling, and how art can function as a conduit to unsettling truths.



Special thanks to Dr. Alicia Kozma and the IU Cinema team for hosting and recording the event.



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REFERENCES

John Carpenter, In the Mouth of Madness

John Carpenter, Prince of Darkness*

John Carpenter, The Thing

Joshua Clover, BFI Film Classics: The Matrix

Philip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint

David Cronenberg, Videodrome

Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)"

Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer

Nick Land, English philosopher

H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs

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Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel