Regurgitations

Authors

  • Gary D. Rhodes Queen’s University Belfast Author

Keywords:

television news, media satire, alcoholism, celebrity, humiliation

Abstract

In this short story, a fading cable news host is ordered by the network’s owner to drop his pet conspiracy campaign, then gets drunk in his office and becomes trapped in a stalled elevator.

Author Biography

  • Gary D. Rhodes, Queen’s University Belfast

    Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Postgraduate Director for Film Studies at The Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Lugosi (McFarland, 1997), White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2002), and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Continuum, 2012), as well as the editor of such anthologies as Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (Lexington, 2008) and The Films of Joseph H. Lewis (Wayne State University, 2012). Rhodes is also the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Currently he is at work on a history of the American horror film to 1915 and a biography of William Fox.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Rhodes, Gary D. “Regurgitations”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 367–371, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/541.