His writings on exploitation film, horror movies, European and Asian cinema, and pornography have been published in many journals and anthologies. Kevin Heffernan teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media history in the Division of Film and Media Arts in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. American Mary is one of Netflix’s most popular horror titles, and its creators, whose other work includes short films and the debut feature Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009), are two of the most widely-discussed filmmakers in online forums and message boards devoted to contemporary horror cinema.Īmerican Mary also illustrates how the shift to video on demand has recast some of the longstanding features of exploitation and B-film production and distribution: Its production company, IndustryWorks Pictures, finances dozens of low-budget genre films which are sold in blocks to streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus, and the high demand for new features which are the equivalent of drive-in programmers of the fifties and sixties make possible a rapid, extensive, and often audacious mutation and recombination of genre conventions. Its crystalline visual style, feminist recasting of tropes from “torture porn” such as the Saw and Hostel films, and empathetic view into the hidden subcultures of sex work and radical body modification mark it as vitally engaged with numerous trends in independent horror cinema. We are delighted to confirm the following speakers:Īuthorship and Revisionism in the Age of Internet Distribution: The Soska Sisters and American Mary Kevin HeffernanĬanadian identical twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska’s 2012 feature American Mary has emerged as one of the major cult horror hits of the video-on-demand era. Angela Ndalianis (University of Melbourne) Kevin Heffernan (Southern Methodist University)
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