Johanna Isaacson
@StepfordDotter
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Author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror; Editor of Blind Field Journal; English Professor at MJC.
Joined August 2015
I’m thrilled to announce that What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is available. It’s a deep dive into Baby Jane and its players' histories, with bonus queer/feminist/Marxist theory and rants about aging as a Gen X woman. Something for everyone!
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Johanna Isaacson’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? examines the film’s cultural significance while tracing its relevance for an anti-ageist feminism.
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Amazing blurbs for Baby Jane from my heroes Erin Harrington, author of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror, and Payton McCarty-Simas author of That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film. https://t.co/4bury8VXo5
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Only two weeks before the Festival of Monsters begins! Public Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of public events including a panel with @almakatsu, @natcassidy and @GretchenMcNeil at @BookshopSC on 10/18. Details https://t.co/f8g1EEZSeP
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Also, for those interested, I can send a free copy to review or blurb!
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Love love love this. Love #Severance #severancesweep
‘SEVERANCE’ Season 2 has won 8 Emmys: • Best Actress • Best Supporting Actor • Best Guest Actress • Best Production Design • Best Cinematography • Best Original Score • Best Sound Mixing • Best Title Design See the full winners list: https://t.co/bunHQVwB8b
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If you missed it, our new episode of @tender_subject is about Fruit Chan’s film Dumplings w/guests Gretchen Felker-Martin & @reproutopia! We talk about the politics of food, abortion, class in Hong Kong & Birkin bags! No one says anything controversial! https://t.co/2NYa6nzOYz
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So honored to participate in this super fun conversation with @joshua_gooch about his brilliant book, Capitalism Hates You!
🎧 So excited to launch our latest podcast episode, Capitalism Hates You, on horror film and Marxist theory, with the incredible @joshua_gooch and @StepfordDotter. Available on Spotify, Apple, the usual places, or right here: https://t.co/Yw1cX3EGao
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My brief interview for DieDie Books on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Hi, Johanna! Baby Jane launched the
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So thrilled to be publishing my book on What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with scrappy, punk rock DieDieBooks! The other books in the series look amazing and Nick and Rachel's promotional video is hilarious.
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Five new killer books on horror movies.
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A memorial to Joshua, written by some MIR faculty
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Our comrade and friend Joshua Clover (1962-2025) passed away in late April after a brief and mysterious illness. We write as his comrades in the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR) to celebrate his...
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Who are the real cannibals? Spoiler: it’s western imperialists! This week on @tender_subject, Kayte, Jay and guest @multimimetica dissect the cult classic Cannibal Holocaust and discover layer upon gristly layer of meaning. https://t.co/FHgRKt48Dw
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Podcast Episode · Tender Subject · 06/03/2025 · 1h 28m
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So much love for Kayte and Jay and Tender Subject. Was such a blast to stay up late ranting about one of my most formative films with these two.
Who are the real cannibals? Spoiler: it’s western imperialists! This week on @tender_subject, Kayte, Jay and guest @multimimetica dissect the cult classic Cannibal Holocaust and discover layer upon gristly layer of meaning. https://t.co/FHgRKt48Dw
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Registration is now open for our next event on TUESDAY 27th May - FRÉWAKA AND THE RISE OF IRISH HORROR. Join us for a conversation covering language, landscape and genre! https://t.co/iN5ddctPoG
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Signed a contract with the Bloomsbury Time Codes series to write a book on Sisters! Inexpressibly deep nerd joy!
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This note to the Marxist Literary Group made me cry at the time, and a lot more so now. Looking forward to gathering this summer to honor our comrade.
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Loved J Clo's Roadrunner book and clung to it as an inimitable model for the kind of cultural writing I like to do. My heart goes out to his intimate friends. For 20 years he was kind to me in our many encounters, and so supportive of my work. I feel lucky to have known him.
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What a delight to interview the brilliant Aislinn Clarke about her atmospheric folk horror film, Fréwaka, out on Shudder today!
Fréwaka is streaming today on @Shudder - and @StepfordDotter conducted a fascinating interview with writer and director @AislinnClarke about the film, her influences, and her sense of Ireland #frewaka #horror #folkhorror #Irishhorror
https://t.co/fwXTJCh2F5
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