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Monsters Inside Out: American & Other Horrors

On Zoom

Speakers: Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College) and W. Scott Poole (Charleston College)

Moderator: Angela Zito (New York University)

Cosponsor:  NYU Center for Religion & Media

Join us, on Wednesday, October 25, 5:30-7:00pm EST, for a conversation between Ithaca College’s, Rachel Wagner, and Charleston College’s, W. Scott Poole, about the monsters we create in America. Wagner’s forthcoming book Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion, Media, Guns explores the horror of our nation’s gun worship. Poole’s Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire links post- WWII horror films and the violence of our military and cultural empire-building. Moderated by NYU’s Angela Zito. Audience Q & A will follow.