Episode 6: Chatting to Dr Shellie McMurdo: Live, Laugh, Toaster Bath!

This week Stella is joined by fellow academic and all round legend, Dr Shellie McMurdo. We tackle the same questions from episode 4, and get to the bottom of such condundrums as:

What do we actually mean by celebrity? 

Could we take Bundy in a fight? 

Is Bundy as famous as Mr Blobby? 

Shellie is the author of Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage cinema, published in 2022 with Edinburgh University Press. 

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-blood-on-the-lens.html

Shellie's article on Tate in American Horror Story and its links to Columbine, can be found here: 

McMurdo, S. (2019). 'It's a filthy goddamn helpless world': Reimagining Columbine, Tate Langdon, and the spectre of school shooters, in European Journal of American Culture, vol 38(1), pp. 57-69

 

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