Contemporaries

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to converse with one another more directly and informally than in traditional academic publications. These curated conversations, or “clusters,” range from sets of relatively autonomous short essays on a common theme to extended epistolary exchanges.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50

Johanna Isaacson and Michael Truscello

Chainsaw Meridian

Mark Steven

// Texas / Chain Saw / Atmospheres //

Chuck Jackson

The Grim Meat-Hook Realities of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Michael Truscello

My Apron is a Chainsaw: Leatherface and His Family Beyond the Masculine Proletariat

Johanna Isaacson

“Becoming Philosophical” in the Slaughterhouse: Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Industrial Cosmic Horror

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

“I Will Survive”: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and the Emergence of the Postmodern Final Girl

Elisabete Lopes

Past clusters