Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work

Brandon R. Grafius is associate professor of biblical studies and academic dean at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. His most recent book is Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us, published by Broadleaf Books in 2022. Concerning Dust and Ashes: Affects of Horror in the Hebrew Bible is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2024.

Brandon R. Grafius

Can We Imagine Better Work? On Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Brandon R. Grafius is associate professor of biblical studies and academic dean at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. His most recent book is Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us, published by Broadleaf Books in 2022. Concerning Dust and Ashes: Affects of Horror in the Hebrew Bible is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2024.

Brandon R. Grafius

Articles

Can We Imagine Better Work? On Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton’s “Labors of Fear”