Murray Leeder

Murray Leeder is a Research Affiliate at the University of Manitoba and holds a Ph.D. from Carleton University. He the author of Horror Film: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Halloween (Auteur, 2014), editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (Bloomsbury, 2015) and ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Articles by Murray Leeder

“A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

discusses Hollywood films about the Calgary Stampede

Volume Five | Spring 2020

The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: RED LETTER DAY and the Suburban Gothic

explores RED LETTER DAY, a grisly treatment of Calgary's suburbia with nary a cowboy hat in sight

Volume Five | Winter 2020

Time Record: A Memoir of Teenage Cinephilia by VCR

contemplates the temporality of VHS recording as a cherished mode of cinematic engagement

Volume Four | Spring 2019

Every Movie is a Ghost Story: an interview with Gemma Files

and Gemma Files discuss her latest book, EXPERIMENTAL FILM, and the enduring qualities of cinema

Volume Two | Fall 2016

Ektoplasm-o-vision! with Guy Maddin

and Guy Maddin discuss film as a haunted medium, and the Internet as promised immortality

Volume One | Summer 2015

Blood on the Poplars: ALIEN THUNDER (1974) and the Story of Almighty Voice

researches the forgotten Western Canadian film, ALIEN THUNDER

Volume Three | Spring 2018

Demons and Demonization: Filming the Anti-Dungeons & Dragons Hysteria

analyzes film depictions of Dungeons & Dragons

Volume Six | Winter 2021

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