{"id":3217,"date":"2020-01-08T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:36:07","slug":"cecilia-sayad-talks-about-the-respectability-of-horror-in-esquire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/08\/cecilia-sayad-talks-about-the-respectability-of-horror-in-esquire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Sayad talks about the respectability of horror in Esquire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/sayad.html\">Dr Cecilia Sayad<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/film.html\">Department of Film<\/a>, was interviewed for an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/uk\/\"><em>Esquire<\/em><\/a> magazine at the end of last month, on the horror film genre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Esquire<\/em> is a men\u2019s lifestyle magazine, which is published in over 20 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018The 2010s Were The Decade When Horror Got Smart\u2019 by Thom Nicholson, explores the spate of cerebral horror films from the last ten years, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2321549\/\"><em>The Babadook<\/em><\/a> (2014, dir. Jennifer Kent), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4263482\/\"><em>The Witch<\/em><\/a> (2016, dir. Rober Eggers), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2321549\/\"><em>Get Out<\/em><\/a> (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8772262\/\"><em>Midsommar<\/em><\/a> (2019, dir. Ari Aster). Such films were presented as the work of &#8216;auteur&#8217; directors, giving the them a respectability usually reserved for literary works.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We like to think about works of art as somebody talking to us or somebody telling us a story,\u2019 explains Cecilia in the article, \u2018I think it\u2019s very appealing to think that there is like a human mind behind this, no matter how many other professionals help or contribute to that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see <em>Esquire<\/em>\u2019s webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/uk\/culture\/film\/a30284121\/elevated-horror-2010s-peele-eggers-aster-blumhouse\/\">www.esquire.com\/uk\/culture\/film\/a30284121\/elevated-horror-2010s-peele-eggers-aster-blumhouse\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Cecilia Sayad, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, was interviewed for an article in Esquire magazine at the end of last month, on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/08\/cecilia-sayad-talks-about-the-respectability-of-horror-in-esquire\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,221729,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}