Hall explores how spectral images of female corpses in Antichrist and Midsommar depict a persistent and wilful refusal to remain buried.
Alex Hall
Alex Hall is a PhD candidate and the creator of Lezzie Borden (@lezzie_borden), an Instagram archive dedicated to queer women in horror. With a background in cinema studies, her interdisciplinary, theoretical research focuses on the relationship between (counter) archives, affect theory, horror studies, and the aesthetics of monstrosity and the queer female body in moving image art. Other research interests include critical race studies, glitch aesthetics, death studies and feminist ecomedia. She has featured work in Monstrum and is forthcoming in Somatechnics and the anthologies Recasting the Bygone Witch and Weird Sisters.
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