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HELLO?
(Digital/7 mins/Colour+B&W/UK)
Status: Forthcoming for publication
This video essay explores the role of the landline in five canonical telephone slasher films - Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Black Christmas (1974), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Scream (2022). It utilises the potential of videographic criticism to imagine alternative endings for Leona, Jess, Jill, and Tara.
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First draft conceptualised at the Scholarship in Sound and Image Workshop on Videographic Criticism, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, July 2022.
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Final version, with creator statement, due for publication in CePRA Journal, Spring 2025
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Made by Alison Peirse
Artwork and Soundtrack by _HEAVYLEG
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