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TRANSCRIPT: Monstrous Middle-Grade: Interview with Laura Parnum
Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am happy to welcome you to our second installment of interview weekend. Yesterday, I released an interview with middle-grade horror author Ally Russell, who I met at an author event at Thrillerdelphia…
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TRANSCRIPT: Monstrous Middle-Grade: Interview with Ally Russell
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 interview weekend over here on the channel. Over the next three days, you’ll be getting three new videos, all of which include very interesting people…
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 11-13
Chapter 11 Ten minutes later, Gret, my shopping bags, and I were sitting on a bench in the park across the street from the grocery store. The park was a small, square plot of land dotted with supplicant trees. Ever since arriving in Supplicants Grove, I had wondered what it would be like to spend…
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TRANSCRIPT: From Pennywise to Freddy Krueger: The Monsters of Adolescent Fear
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and in this video, we are continuing our conversation about, allegedly, the only thing we have to fear: fear itself. In my last video essay, I discussed how monster stories for little…
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 8-10
Part II: Momentum Chapter 8 When I was small, I once heard a lab assistant rapturously proclaim that human anatomy was a symphony. He was wrong. Anatomy, when working correctly, was silence. The lucky ones never heard it at all. My throat spasmed, but the only sound I could make was a squeaky rasp. My…
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TRANSCRIPT: Facing Fears with Friendly Monsters: Grover, The Nightmare, and “Monsters, Inc.”
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 stories that use monsters to encourage children to face their fears. Monsters are extremely versatile cultural phenomena. For the majority of my work on this channel,…
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 6-7
Chapter 6 The girl stood there, watching my reaction from beneath her oversized glasses, waiting for my response as coolly as if she’d just asked about the weather. When I had mastered my disgust enough to speak, I said, “You tell Gret —” “Nope,” the girl said. “Not a messenger. I get that I botched…
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TRANSCRIPT: Guillermo del Toro’s Monsters and Children under Fascism: “Pinocchio” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and before we even get into the video – did you see that amazing new intro image?? Illustrator and animator Kiernan Sjursen-Lien reached out with an offer to create artwork for the…
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 4-5
Chapter 4 I watched the desert as the car sped away from the compound. Without the transformation looming over me, I could once again appreciate its beauty. It wasn’t really just dirt and sky. Tough, spiky wildflowers grew out of the cracks in the earth, and cacti, lizards, and tarantulas dotted the ground. Halfway back…
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 1-3
Part I: Stasis Chapter 1 By the third time my fingers slipped out of rhythm against my frame drum, I knew it was time to stop. This close to 6:00, even music could not distract me. I set the drum down on my closed laptop and leaned my chin in my hands and my elbows…
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