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“Monsters and Monstrosity” Interview

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Myself and Andre Loiselle, who is in Film Studies, will be offering an ArtsOne cluster called “Monsters and Monstrosity” during the Fall 2012/Winter 2013 session. We were both interviewed on what we have planned for the cluster and our thoughts on monsters, horror and mass destruction.

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“Monsters and Monstrosity”

Thursday, November 24, 2011

I routinely teach in a program called ArtsOne. The idea of ArtsOne is that first year students have a common schedule and take a number of courses on a particular topic or theme. For the past few years, I have taught in the “Criminal Matters” cluster, which, as the title suggests, is largely an introduction [...]

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An Eleventh Thesis on “True Blood”

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The hardest aspect of the show to understand is the role of blood, both real and synthetic. The previous two episodes point to its powers: it is already known that vampire blood has effects on humans and supernaturals who consume it, but the powers of supernatural blood on vampires has not been explored. It is [...]

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Ten Theses on “True Blood”

Monday, August 2, 2010

1. Traditionally, vampires have been about death (e.g., premature burial) and seduction (e.g., aristocrats preying upon the women of lower social orders); while blood has been important to traditional vampires, they were never “about” blood; 2. The vampires of “True Blood” pose the question of consumption and are thus actually about blood: who should eat [...]

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