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TRANSCRIPT: AMA Part 2: Academic and Fiction Book Recs, My Tastes in Monster Storytelling, and More!
Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is part two of the Ask Me Anything. Answering your very good, very in-depth, detailed questions took more time than I realized it was going to, so got broken up into two…
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TRANSCRIPT: AMA part 1
Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kelllett, and this video is an ask me anything. Um, thank you so much for everyone who gave me questions in the comments of my last video. Um, as I mentioned over on that one,…
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TRANSCRIPT: ANIMORPHS: The Monster and the Child at War
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is all about Animorphs. If you have only a passing familiarity with this series, you may be thinking, oh, how fun! If you know this series well, then you…
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TRANSCRIPT: Children with No Future: The Child Vampire in “Let the Right One In” and “Interview with the Vampire”
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is all about the child vampire. This is, in many ways, the final video in my little trilogy on queer child monsters; the first two were both about shapeshifters.…
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TRANSCRIPT: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters and I Saw the TV Glow: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 2
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is – finally – part two of the queer child shapeshifter. Part 1 was all about Nimona by N.D. Stevenson – I love that character so much that I couldn’t…
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TRANSCRIPT: The Kids of Conspiracy Stories: The Spectacle of Victimhood from Blood Libel to the X-Files
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am excited to be back after taking a very brief hiatus to go get married. Thank you so much for all of your kind wishes people left on my last…
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TRANSCRIPT: Nimona: The Queer Child Shapeshifter, Part 1
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am extremely excited to welcome you to my first video about childhood, monstrosity, and queerness. This is a particular favorite subject of mine, for, I assume, obvious reasons, but it…
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TRANSCRIPT: Good Nature, Bad Nurture: Frankenstein, Dark Water, and The Sixth Sense
Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today we are continuing my series on the monsters of childhood innocence by discussing what happens when that innocence is not nurtured. How badly do adults have to drop the ball…
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TRANSCRIPT: The Trope of the Disabled Imposter Child in The Brood, Orphan, and the Works of Ari Aster
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is part three of my Monsters of Childhood Innocence series, and part two of my monstrosity, childhood, and disability analysis. There’s just too much to talk about for one video…
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TRANSCRIPT: The Monsters of Childhood Innocence: Eugenics in Old Hollywood … and Today
INTRODUCTION: MONSTERS AND MARVELS Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is the second video in my series on the monsters of childhood innocence. Once again, we’re going to ask the question of which children are allowed to be…
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