Tag: childhood studies
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TRANSCRIPT: Youth Monsterology Fundraising Launch: Great Monster-y Rewards for Donors!
Campaign is here: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/the-monster-and-the-child/youth-monsterology-book-club-and-mentorship/rewards Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is my Indiegogo launch video! I am so excited to be launching this fundraiser – my first fundraiser – for Youth Monsterology, my program of book…
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TRANSCRIPT: The Child Psychopath Film and Why I Don’t Like It
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 narrative of the child psychopath. That’s right, our monsters are purely metaphorical today, but I think you will see that this figure is treated as…
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TRANSCRIPT: Monster Book Club: Past and Future
Indiegogo preview: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/the-monster-and-the-child/youth-monsterology-book-club-and-mentorship Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is about what it’s like to actually work within that collision of monster studies and childhood studies. I’m going to be sharing my dissertation study experience with you…
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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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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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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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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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