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b'This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… The Gorgon (1965) 10/4/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 15:06 — Notes — We watched the Indicator Hammer Volume One Box Set edition of\\xa0The Gorgon for the show this week. Indicator seems to put a lot of resources into every release, and their box sets are fantastic – this box set is no exception. This release of\\xa0The Gorgon looks amazing and also includes lots of supplemental materials, including its own insightful commentary track by Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger. Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings — An engaging and insightful book on the director of many of Hammer’s greatest movies, Terence Fisher. Peter Hutchings is a wonderful writer, and this book fits right in with a lot of his other writing. There’s a brief section here discussing\\xa0The Gorgon, and Hutchings does a good job situating the film within the rest of Fisher’s work. A New Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema\\xa0by David Pirie — This study by David Pirie was one of the foremost academic examinations of the gothic tradition in British filmmaking. The book isn’t exclusively dedicated to Hammer, but Pirie still discusses Hammer films extensively, while also dedicating an entire chapter to Terence Fisher. Recommended for anyone looking to learn some more about Hammer. The Medusa Reader Edited by Marjorie Garber & Nancy J. Vickers — We didn’t wind up relying on any material from this book for this episode, but it’s worth mentioning. It’s a terrific resource for anyone looking to learn more about the way Medusa’s been continuously re-interpreted and appropriated by different people, a process that’s continued for thousands of years. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed — A vital book for anyone interested in learning how gender operates within the horror genre, in specifically psychoanalytic terms. The psychoanalytic framework of Creed’s examination allows her to provide both insightful commentary on numerous horror films and re-examine the psychoanalytic concepts themselves – it’s a wonderful book. We didn’t reference any specific passage during our episode, but Medusa re-appears consistently throughout the book and clearly serves as one of the most significant images of monstrous femininity. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover — One of the most substantial books discussing the horror genre. We’ve referenced it numerous times, and it certainly applies to our discussion of\\xa0The Gorgon as well. The second chapter especially, “Opening Up,” can provide a lot of insight into how The Gorgon\\xa0utilizes gender within its possession narrative and treatment of Clara. We’ll include a brief passage below: “Whereas the female story traces a circle (she becomes again what she was when the film began), the excesses of its middle disappearing without a physical or psychic trace (Regan is explicitly amnesiac, Linda implicitly so), the male story is linear (he is at the end radically different from what he was at the beginning), public (he and the world know he has changed), and apparently permanent. In other words, hers is an ABA story of restoration in which she emerges unaware of what has transpired, whereas his is an ABC story of revision or conversion in which he emerges a “new man” fully cognizant of\\xa0what has befallen not only himself but her as well. At the same time, his C is very much like her A. The man he becomes is a man who not only accepts the feminine against which he railed at the outset but even, up to a point, shares it. If he does not accept and share it, as in Don’t Look Now, he dies\\u201d (98-99) “Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema” by Laura Mulvey — Here’s a link to a PDF version of the essay. Goes without saying that this is'