Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
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\u2019s cult classic obliterates the boundary between reality and fiction, madness and revelation\u2014an ideal subject for a Weird Studies conversation. In this episode, recorded before a live audience, the hosts explore the film\u2019s Lovecraftian themes, the porous nature of storytelling, and how art can function as a conduit to unsettling truths.
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REFERENCES
\nJohn Carpenter, In the Mouth of Madness
\nJohn Carpenter, Prince of Darkness*
\nJohn Carpenter, The Thing
\nJoshua Clover, BFI Film Classics: The Matrix
\nPhilip K. Dick, Time Out of Joint
\nDavid Cronenberg, Videodrome
\nLouis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)"
\nGiorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer
\nNick Land, English philosopher
\nH. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
\nJonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs