Bibliography

COURSE FILMS

28 Weeks Later, dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (2007)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, dir. Nathan Juran (1958)

Alien, dir. Ridley Scott (1979)

The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg (1986)

Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1931)

Freaks, dir. Tod Browning (1931)

King Kong, dir. Merian Cooper (1933)

Monsters, Inc., dirs. Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich (2001)

Nosferatu, dir. F.W. Murnau (Prana Films, 1922)

COURSE TEXTS

Bakke, Gretchen. “Dead White Men: An Essay on the Changing Dynamics of Race in US Action Cinema,” Anthropological Quarterly 83.2 (2010): 400-428

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. “Monster Culture (Seven Theses),” In Monster Theory, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996): 3-25

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film, 8th ed. (Longman, 2012)

Creed, Barbara. “Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection,” in The Horror Reader: 64-70

Davidson, Arnold I. “The Horror of Monsters,” in The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, eds. James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1991): 36-65

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York and Washington: Praeger, 1966): 29-40, 122-128.

Dubowsky, Jack Curtis. “The Evolving ‘Temp Score’ in Animation, MSMI 5:1 (Spring 11): 1-24

Freeman, Elizabeth. “Monsters, Inc.: Notes on Neoliberal Arts Education,” New Literary History, 36.1 (2005): 83-95

Garland Thomson, Rosemarie. “Introduction: From Wonder to Error-A Genealogy of Freak Discourse,” in Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: New York UP, 1996) 1-19

Gilmore, David D. Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2003): 1-22

Grosz, Elizabeth. “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit,” in Freakery: 55-66

Hawkins, Joan. “‘One of Us’: Tod Browning’s Freaks,” in Freakery: 265-276

Huet, Marie-Helene. Monstrous Imagination (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993) 1-35

Langelaan, George. “The Fly,” in Playboy 4.6 (1957): 17-58

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. Carmilla (1872/ Valancourt Books, 2009)

Lewis, Monk. The Isle of Devils (1816/ 1834)

O’Flinn, Paul. “Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein,” in The Horror Reader, ed. Ken Gelder (New York: Routledge, 2002): 114-127

Rony, Fatimah Tobing. “King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema,” in The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle  (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1996): 157-191

Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Anchor, 1990): 104-112, 132-182

Tudor, Andrew. Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991): 133-157, 211-224

Walpole, Horace, William Beckford, and Mary Shelley, Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein (Penguin Classics, 1968)

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