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Dr. David Annandale

Senior Instructor

Office: 622 Fletcher Argue
Phone: (204) 474-6279
Email: david.annandale@umanitoba.ca

Education: PhD (Alberta), MA (Manitoba), BA (Manitoba)

 

 

 David Annandale

Recent Courses:

  • Video Games and Theory
  • European Horror
  • The Fantasy Film
  • The Drive-In Movie
  • The Apocalyptic Imagination
  • The Comic Book Film

Upcoming courses:

  • Science Fiction
  • Screenwriting

Areas of Specialization:

Film, creative writing, horror, science fiction, fantasy, exploitation cinema, video games.

Books:
  • Curse of the Wulfen. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2016.
  • The Hunt for Vulkan. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2016.
  • The Last Wall. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2016.
  • Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2016.
  • Watchers in Death. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2016.
  • Lemartes: Guardian of the Lost. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2015.
  • Sons of Titan. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2015.
  • The Unburdened. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2015.
  • Yarrick: The Pyres of Armageddon. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2015.
  • The Damnation of Pythos. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2014.
  • Maledictus. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2014.
  • Overfiend. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2014.
  • Yarrick: Imperial Creed. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2014.
  • The Death of Antagonis. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2013.
  • Mephiston: Lord of Death. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2013.
  • Yarrick: Chains of Golgotha. Nottingham, UK: The Black Library, 2013.
  • Gethsemane Hall. Toronto: Dundurn Press and Oxford: Snowbooks, 2012.
  • The Valedictorians. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2010.
  • Kornukopia. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2004.
  • Crown Fire. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2002.

Articles:
  • “Rabelais Meets Vogue: Lady Gaga’s Construction of Carnival, Beauty and the Grotesque.” Performance and Identity: The Music of Lady Gaga. Ed. Richard Gray. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2012. 142-59.
  • “Dark Imperative: Kant, Sade, and Catholicism in Jess Franco's Exorcism.” Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery. Ed. Regina Hansen. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. 244-55.
  • “Avatars of Destruction: Cheerleading and Deconstructing the War on Terror in Video Games.” Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror.” Eds. Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula and Karen Randell. New York: Continuum, 2010. 97-106.
  • “Hiding in the Plain’s Sight: Prairie Secrets, Prairie Horror, and the Undermining of Prairie Nostalgia in Phillip Ridley’s The Reflecting Skin.” English Quarterly 40.1/2 (2008): 10-13.
  • “Legacy of Betrayal: The Trouble with Film Adaptations of Video Games.” Forms of Writing: A Rhetoric, Handbook, and Reader. 5th ed. Eds. Kay L. Stewart et al. Toronto: Pearson, 2009. 287-92.
  • “The Subversive Carnival of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.” The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto. Ed. Nate Garrelts. North Carolina: McFarland, 2006. 88-103.
  • “‘Horror Has Its Ultimate, and I Am That’: Severing the Bonds of Identity in The Brain That Wouldn’t Die and The Head.” Horror at the Drive-In. Ed. Gary D. Rhodes. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2003. 129-39.
  • “Guerrilla Vamping: Vampyros Lesbos, Becoming-Woman and the Unravelling of the Male Gaze.” Paradoxa 17 (2002): 257-70.