Dr. Shimabukuro chairs panel at The Slasher Studies Summer Camp: An International Conference on Slasher Theory, History and Practice

 

 

This summer Dr. Shimabukuro chaired a panel on "Nuance and the Strategies of 1980s Slasher" during the Slasher Summer Camp conference.

It was a totally online, international conference organised by Daniel Sheppard, Birmingham City University, UK and Dr. Wickham Clayton, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK. The conference featured guest speakers Vera Dika, Steve Jones, Lloyd Kaufman, Ellen Lutter, and John Newby.

Dr. Shimabukuro and Dr. Clayton are currently co-editing a collection, Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror for Auteur Press, and Dr. Shimabukuro's chapter in the collection reexamines and challenges the definition of "Final Girl" when the actress/character are older.

Dr. Shimabukuro has written two other chapters as part of edited collections for Dr. Clayton, “The Devil and The Culture Wars: Demonizing Controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ” in The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium (2020) and “I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the Nightmare on Elm Street series.” Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film (2015) as well as an article, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Board Game as Liminal Space" in Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 7 (Summer 2014).