@DanielJSheppard

Independent Scholar, UK | Associate Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Associate Director, @Cine_Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him

 Birmingham, England
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DELIGHTED to announce that my latest article, “Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher,” has just been published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video. It’s available to read open access here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2026)

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🚨 Registration for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, closes on Friday 16 October. We’re delighted to announce Prof David Greven as our new keynote. His keynote, “The Victim-Monster: Carrie, Horror Film and the American Gothic,” takes place on Tuesday 20 October. Link below ⬇️
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🚨 Schedule for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests inc. Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Link: cine-excess.co.uk
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🚨 Schedule for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests inc. Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Link: cine-excess.co.uk
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📺 As part of our online industry panel, LEGENDS, LEGACIES & HOME ENTERTAINMENT, we further welcome comic book publisher Sandy King (Storm King Entertainment), documentary filmmaker Thomas Edward Seymour (Enter the Television) & David Gregory from film distributor Severin Films
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Tomorrow morning, @XMendik and I are delighted to present at MeCCSA 2026, hosted by the University of Leicester. Here, we’ll be introducing our feature-length documentary, SCUM OF THE EARTH: CREATING AMERICA’S RURAL COMMUNITIES OF HORROR, which premieres internationally @ 11:25am
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⏰ Gentle reminder: abstracts due TOMORROW on Friday 21 August…
Dr Daniel Sheppard@DanielJSheppardMay 20
🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Access: cine-excess.co.uk
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🚨 Don’t forget: abstracts due Friday 21 August. Read the CfP below!
Dr Daniel Sheppard@DanielJSheppardMay 20
🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Access: cine-excess.co.uk
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🚨 V2 of our CfP for Cine-Excess 2026 is now LIVE. We’re delighted to share the title of Professor Aviva Briefel’s keynote, “Return to Cabrini Green: Candyman (1992/2021) and the Spatialization of Horror Legends,” details of which can be found via the link below!
Dr Daniel Sheppard@DanielJSheppardMay 20
🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Access: cine-excess.co.uk
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This article is published as part of QRFV’s 50th Anniversary Special Issue, featuring all-new original contributions from such esteemed authors as William Rothman, Janet Bergstrom, Jane M. Gaines, Dudley Andrew, Michael Renov, Scott MacDonald & Vera Dika: tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/4…

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

QRFV 50th Anniversary Special Issue. Volume 43, Issue 3 of Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Access: cine-excess.co.uk
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
Pete Turner ✌️@ilovethatfilmJan 12
My book on people's memories of watching videos they perhaps shouldn't have been watching in the 1980s, titled Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences, is finally almost here from @EdinburghUP Available to pre-order at edinburghuniversitypress.com… Use code NEW30 for a 30% discount!
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🚨 Schedule for @Cine_Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more info & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-exces…
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🗓️ Abstracts for @Cine_Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
Dr Daniel Sheppard@DanielJSheppard23 Jul 2025
🚨 Updated CfP for @Cine_Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks the anniversaries of RE-ANIMATOR (1985) & SHIVERS (1975). Brian Yuzna, prod. of RE-ANIMATOR, is scheduled to join us in person & Lynn Lowry, star of SHIVERS, joins us online. INFO ➡️ bit.ly/CECFP
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🚨 Updated CfP for @Cine_Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks the anniversaries of RE-ANIMATOR (1985) & SHIVERS (1975). Brian Yuzna, prod. of RE-ANIMATOR, is scheduled to join us in person & Lynn Lowry, star of SHIVERS, joins us online. INFO ➡️ bit.ly/CECFP
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This afternoon, @XMendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉
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Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤
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DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @UniWalesPress. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with Wickham Clayton 👻📚🎉
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🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna joins us w/ keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guests TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
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I've basically given up on Twitter but I'm back to let you know that my article on THE WOMEN (1939) and the Production Code has been made free access, meaning you can now read it without a journal subscription. Link below.
dr. olympia kiriakou@thescrewballgrl4 Jan 2025
Delighted to have written about THE WOMEN (1939) for Quarterly Review of Film and Video's special issue about the Production Code. Big kudos to our editor Dr. Tom Brown for putting together a wonderful collection of scholarship. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

“But What if I Don’t Want Him Under Those Terms?”: Adaptation, Marriage, and Performance in The...

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2025)

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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
Nicholas Vince@nicholas_vince4 Feb 2025
Last year, Barbie Wilde, Simon Bamford and I were guests at Cine-Excess film festival. The journal, titled RAISING HELL, contains academic papers on the themes of Demons, Darkness and the Abject. FREE to read or watch at the link below.
Cine-Excess@cine_excess30 Jan 2025
Issue 6 of the Cine-Excess journal is now available online for free! Containing a range of papers, and for the first time supplementary filmed interviews, you can read Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject at bit.ly/cine-excess-issue-6
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