Tag: monsters
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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH: Chapters 21-22
Part III: Metamorphology Chapter 21 By the time the pack was ready to leave the park, the puddles had vanished. The desert once again appeared as it always did, with no evidence that it had ever changed at all. Sandra grinned as she counted her money, but I knew what she had just done was…
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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: 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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OUR SHARP FORSAKEN TEETH, Chapters 14-15
Chapter 14 I swore to myself I wouldn’t use the mud again, but the next morning, it hardly mattered. My burns had completed more than a week’s worth of healing overnight. I felt dirtier after my shower than I did before, even as my skin delighted in the water’s soothing touch instead of flinching away.…
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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: 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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