Tag: monster studies
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TRANSCRIPT: Launching Youth Monsterology and Monster Book Clubs!
Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and I am thrilled to announce that the pilot program of Youth Monsterology is full steam ahead and ready for enrollment – as are both teen and adult monster book clubs! So if…
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TRANSCRIPT: Strangers and/or Dangers: Monstrous Adults in Weapons, The Black Phone, and The Night of the Hunter
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today we are talking about monster stories, stranger danger, and the categories of trustworthy and untrustworthy adults. The films that we’ll be discussing are Weapons from 2025, The Black Phone from…
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TRANSCRIPT: Bad Dads, Monster Sons: Del Toro’s Frankenstein and Disney’s Hunchback(s)
INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today I am finally talking about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, about six months late. I do have a video where I talk about the original novel, along with the films The…
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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: 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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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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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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