Tag: monsters
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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: 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: Devils, Darkness, and White Supremacy
Part 1: Childhood Innocence in the Western World Hello, and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where childhood studies and monster studies collide! I am Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and today we’re going to talk about the monsters of childhood innocence. That may sound like a contradiction in terms, but I actually have a whole…
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Monsters 102: Monster, Victim, Hero … and Child: Transcript
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEfOfntB3Xs&t=4s 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 Monsters 102: Monster, Victim, Hero – and Child. If you haven’t yet watched my Monsters 101 video, which was about understanding monstrosity as the antagonistic…
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Monsters 101: Monstrosity vs. Humanity: Transcript
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edt-nvHqoWs&t=23s INTRO Hello and welcome to The Monster & The Child, where Childhood Studies and Monster Studies collide! I’m Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this video is Monstrosity 101: Monsters vs. Humans. A lot of people have spent a lot of time trying to define what it means to be a “monster,”…
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Welcome to The Monster & The Child: Transcript
(NB: I have started a YouTube channel! I will be hosting transcripts here, along with other blog posts. I hope you enjoy!) Hello there! My name is Dr. Kathleen Kellett, and this is The Monster & The Child. I am incredibly excited to bring this new venture into the wide world of YouTube. This channel…
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The Monster Resurfaces
Hey, remember when I had a blog? Well, it turns out I still do, since I kept paying the annual fee to WordPress, because hope springs eternal, I suppose. In my defense, a lot has happened in the last three years: I think all of that justifies my absence from this space, though I am…
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A Cup of Kindness
Why, hello! I haven’t blogged since August! This semester has truly been the most exhausting and hectic academic term of my life. I started off with back-to-back illnesses (food poisoning followed immediately by an interminable chest cold), then had a perfect storm of time consuming coursework and travel (a really fun Monday night Camden/Tuesday morning…
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