Personal / Website News
Podcast Appearances
Michele and I appeared on the Chatting with Sherri program and the episode went live this past Thursday.
Earlier today we recorded the newest episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast. In this episode we discuss Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. Both podcasts have been added to the podcast index.
Our upcoming podcast schedule looks like this:
- 11/25 – HP Lovecast Fragments: Interview with Robert Ottone
- 11/26 – Scholars from the Edge of Time appearance
- 12/06 – HP Lovecast: Stories from Wonder and Glory Forever, edited by Nick Mamatas
- 12/20 – HP Lovecast Fragments: Interview with Nick Mamatas
- 12/24 – Scholars from the Edge of Time appearance
Call for Proposals
The Call for Presentations for Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is live. The CFP can be read at the StokerCon 2021 website.
The Call for Abstracts for my collection of essays on neo-medievalism is live. The CFP can be found here.
ICYMI
In case you missed them, here is a wrap up of my essays published at my website since going live:
- Tarzan Cocktail: Deconstructed – Reconstructed
- Entering the Arena: Elysian Fields #0
- Immortals Fenyx Rising: Ubisoft’s Newest Neo-Peplum Game
- “Lion” A New Wizard of Oz Story From Candace Robinson and Amber R. Duell
- Between the Seasons: Disney’s Silly Symphony “The Goddess of Spring” and Depictions of Greek Mythology
General Neo-Peplum News
Netflix is looking to develop an Assassin’s Creed series. Hopefully they will bring in Kassandra?
Both Looper and The Cinemaholic have write ups on the Blood of Zeus animated series on Netflix.
While IGN reviews season one of Netflix’s Barbarians.
Rest in Peplum
Legendary actor Sir Sean Connery, iconic for bringing pop culture phenomena James Bond to life, passed away earlier this week at the age of 90. Aside from his portraying Bond, Connery starred in numerous peplum films and TV programs:
- An Age of Kings (1960)
- Adventure Story (1961)
- Zardoz (1974, John Boorman, counting film as sword and planet genre)
- Robin and Marian (1976, Richard Lester)
- Time Bandits (1981, Terry Gilliam)
- Sword of the Valiant (1984, Stephen Weeks)
- The Name of the Rose (1986, Jean-Jacques Annaud)
- Highlander (1986, Russell Mulcahy)
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991, Kevin Reynolds)
- First Knight (1995, Jerry Zucker)
- Dragon Heart (1996, Rob Cohen)