I'm David Ray Carter, a writer and film critic specializing in film reviews and movie essays. I have written hundreds of reviews for various sites like Film Fanaddict, NotComingSoon, and PopMatters, and my work has also appeared in print for Fortean Times and Film Fanaddict Magazine. Additionally, I have had the opportunity to present on film and other pop culture topics in both the US and the UK.
Essay: "It's Only a Movie? Reality as Transgression in Exploitation Cinema" from the anthology From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century, edited by John Cline & Robert G. Weiner, Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Essay: "Cinemasochism: Bad Movies and the People Who Love Them." featured in In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing, edited by Robert G. Weiner & Shelley Barba, McFarland & Company, 2011.
Essay: "Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series." included in Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man, edited by Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee, McFarland & Company, 2012.
Essay: "Episodes of Madness: Representations of the Joker in Television and Animation." published in The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime, edited by Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee, University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Essay: "Frozen in Ice: Captain America's Arduous Journey to the Silver Screen." found in Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s, edited by Matthew J. McEniry, Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee, McFarland & Company, 2016.
Essay: "The Cold War Turns Hot on TV: World War III in Television Movies." from Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999, edited by Amanda Reyes, Headpress, 2017.
Additionally, my own book, Conspiracy Cinema: Propaganda, Politics, and Paranoia, which features hundreds of film reviews and essays, was published by Headpress in 2012, with a revised edition set to release soon.
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