Focusing on moments of investigation and discovery, this video essay explores the work of six women editors working in Korean horror cinema.
Alice Haylett Bryan
Alice Haylett Bryan is a Lecturer in Film History at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses predominantly on motherhood and/on film, and 21st Century French horror cinema, with recent publications including ‘Inhospitable Landscapes: Contemporary French Horror Cinema, Immigration and Identity’ in French Screen Studies (2021), and ‘“You Have Absolutely No Control Over Your Mind and Body Anymore”: Pregnancy, Autonomy and Prepartum Anxiety in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge’ in the edited collection Mothers of Invention: Film, Media and Caregiving Labor (2022). She is currently writing a monograph that attempts to de-westernise psychoanalytic readings of motherhood in international horror cinema, and is a co-editor of the 21st Century Horror series with Edinburgh University Press. Twitter: @Alicehbryan
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
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Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
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