MIND, BODY, DISEASE, AND TRAUMA: Screening Trauma in the Body

MIND, BODY, DISEASE, AND TRAUMA: SCREENING TRAUMA IN THE BODY

Traumatic stress has the ability to wreak havoc on the body, resulting in physical symptoms like rashes, lumps, hives, and bumps. In this presentation, three films will be examined for their ability to showcase “trauma horror,” a sub-genre in which the concept of trauma acts as the central cause and effect for the horror taking place in the story. David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), M. Night Shyamalan’s Split (2016), and Adam Robitel’s The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) center on protagonists enduring terrifying physical changes and alterations to their bodies as a result of traumatic stress brought on by childhood abuse and disease.

Come ready to feel your skin crawl and prepare to start reassigning those odd bumps on your body after learning how trauma can manifest itself physically in the body and within the space around it.

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About the Presenter:

Quatoyiah Murry is a film writer and author of TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema. Her love of words and her passion for film history has made her an integral part of Turner Classic Movies. She produces video essays and writes film essays with contributions to Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Turner Classic Movies, and OCN Distribution physical media. She has hosted international film screenings for independent and cult films in France, Canada, and America. Her work often focuses on diversity, representation, and historical context in film. Her areas of expertise include cult cinema, Black cinematic history, trauma and the body, the Golden Age of Hollywood, and James Spader movies. Born and raised in Georgia, she lived, worked, and received her master’s in films studies in Paris, France.

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Instagram: @quatoyiah_murry

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https://thecinephiliac.com/understanding-cinephilia/

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