MFG – Timeline

I decided to focus my graduate studies on Women in Horror

Focused in on Women of French Horror after seeing L Interieur (Inside)

Completed Master Thesis on the Women of French Horror

Master Thesis was published - \"Objectification Repackaged: The Women of 21st Century Horror\"

"Objectification Repackaged: The Women of 21st Century Horror"

Natural evolution from MA to MFA

I wanted to continue looking at Feminist Horror Scholarship and was considering a variety of countries to look at next. Then one day my 2 yr old daughter woke from her nap while I was watching the horror film Basket Case- EeK!! - But that was the spark for my MFA work on Black Women in Horror. I turn my work towards a look at black women in horror to offer her a legacy of my work that actually pertained to us.

MFA Project gets a name My Final Girl - Black Women in American Horror

This title is a play on Carol Clover's 'Final Girl' theory in "Men, Women, & Chainsaws" but the "My" is the implication that in the Final Girl theory there is no POC research. More Specifically, the Final Girl THeory is based on a sample of White women in American Horror.

Thus, My Final Girl os the POC response to the Final Girl Theory.

Interviewed Beverly Bonner

Visited the Schomberg Archives to reseach Black Hollywood via Don Bogle

Interviewed Dr. Robin Means-Coleman about Horror Noir Book and creating a space for Black Horror Theory

Visited University of Indiana Black Film Archive to look at Original Ganja & Hess Posters and Artwork

Interviewed Marlene Clark about Ganja & Hess, Night of the Cobra Woman, and the industry

Visited UCLA Film Archives to screen Sweet Sweetback Badasssss Song

Interviewed Isabel Pinedo about Female horror viewers \"Recreational Terror\"

Interview Sam Waymon to discuss the Score of Ganja & Hess and creating Black Sound for a Black Film

Interviewed Gloria Gifford about Halloween II and the part orig. being for a white woman

Visited Amoeba Music to search for MFG Black Film Memorabilia & Media

Visited Eddie Brandt

Visited Larry Edmunds Bookshop to search for MFG Black Film Memorabilia & Media

Interviewed William Crain in LA about Blacula and the sequel

Interviewed Chiz Schultz and discussed the trials and tribulations of Ganja & Hess Production vs. the industry and union road blocks

Invited to speak My Final Girl @ Philly Women Love Horror hosted by Ashlee Blackwell

Shared My Final Girl @ a talk about Horror and the presence of Blackness @ Burning Man

Spoke @ Women in Horror Fest about My Final Girl with Ashlee Blackwell

MFA Exhibition & Screening of My Final Girl

Defended MFA Thesis - My Final Girl *Passed with Distinction

\"The Business of Love\" *(the marriage and life of Alice B. Russell) play in Lower East Side Festival of Arts

Came across one of the first Black Female Producers in America Alice B. Russell (wife of Oscar Micheax) while continuing MFG research and began writing a short play about her.

Shot \"One For The Road\" Stephen King Dollar Baby an MFG endeavor with 90% Female cast /crew

Screened My Final Girl in Germany @ Final Girls Film Festival in Berlin

Screened My Final Girl @ Big Bloody Apple: NYC Women in Horror Month