The belated Fantasy/Animation Halloween special arrives with this examination of The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, 2024), a gruesome body horror that functions as a pointed commentary on femininity, aging, and the cultural currency of women as disposable images of gender. Chris and Alex are joined in this episode by Dr Deborah Jermyn, who is Associate Professor in Film and Culture at the University of Roehampton. Deborah’s key research and teaching interests lie in the fields of women, feminism, culture, contemporary media industries, gender and aging, US cinema and genres (particularly the work of women practitioners), and celebrity across a breadth of media and creative industry contexts.
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