Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frankenstein. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2020

A Monster Scale

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman One way to energize a genre of fiction is to introduce into it a hierarchy, or some other type of...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

The Not-So-Gentle Sex

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman Horace Walpole Although Horace Walpole's 1764 novel of mistaken identities, The Cas...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Conveying Fear

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Horror posters are like the covers of horror novels, except the former's production quality ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

A Monster Scale

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman, author of Good with a Gun One way to energize a genre of fiction is to introduce into it a hierarch...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Horror Fiction: Myths and Monsters

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman During a freshman-level course in composition, I had my students write an essay analyzing a print adv...
Friday, July 11, 2014

The Monster as Sexual Menace

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman On one level, most horror fiction is about sex. Monsters are rapists. Monsters are penises . Monste...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Monsters: A(lpha) to Z(eta)

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copyright 2013 by Gary L. Pullman Traditionally, monsters in horror movies have been coded as masculine; indeed, many are male. Once u...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Monsters of the New Depression

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman If critics are right about the times in which we live spawning the monsters who inhabit our waking ni...