Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings

🎬 Join us for an insightful lecture on His House (2020), a chilling ghost story that delves into themes of displacement and the lingering shadows of empire. This discussion will place the film within the broader context of a global 'horror cinema of precarity', a genre that brings to light the experiences of marginalized individuals.

🧛‍♂️ We will draw from postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theories to uncover how Britain’s imperial and capitalist pasts haunt the film in an atmospheric way. Expect to explore how these spectral legacies appear as colonial ghosts – not in physical form but expressed through systems of surveillance, labor, and consumption, revealing the subtle yet persistent violence faced by refugees in a UK landscape where true belonging seems forever unattainable.

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