Offscreen Notes
The Glorious and The Grotesque: Horror Cinema of the 70s and 80s
Offscreen would like to announce the official launch of a new website dedicated to the study of horror cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, created, designed and written by Justin H. Langlois: The Glorious and The Grotesque: Horror Cinema of the 70s and 80s. This website is ‘sponsored’ by Offscreen, meaning that its development was encouraged by Offscreen and supported through editorial suggestions and guidance. This idea of sponsored websites is a new Offscreen initiative, which aims at helping to nurture and promote online film writing by young and upcoming critics, researchers, historians, and scholars. Stay tuned for other ‘sponsored’ websites to be announced on Offscreen. Langlois is an MA Graduate student in Film Studies at Concordia University, and this website bears the fruit of his graduate research. As it stands the content was written by Justin, but the goal of these ‘sponsored’ websites is to make them an ‘open source’ reference point for ongoing research that any one can contribute to in any number of ways, depending on the nature and subject of the website. For example, where “The Glorious and The Grotesque” is concerned, interested readers can contribute additional entries on remakes, reviews of relevant material, links, and sources. All contributors will be cited by name on the website. Received material will of course be subject to editorial scrutiny but the hope is to keep the sites open to a variety of writing styles, approaches and research methodologies. Final decision on inclusion will be reserved to the site creator and/or Offscreen. Any one interested in submitting a contribution to “The Glorious and The Grotesque” website please email their queries or submissions to either Justin H. Langlois or Donato Totaro.
