1. Cohen & Intro to Film Project

2. Monster Film Analysis Project

3. Group presentation analyzing a contemporary monster from film
The Basics
Group presentation analyzing a contemporary monster from film
Required minutes in length
Needs to be engaging and interesting
Needs to integrate one-two film clips into content (but not exceeding 5 minutes total)
*25 Culminating Points

4. Potential Film Choices…
The Shining (R)
Edward Scissorhands (PG-13)
The Birds (PG-13)
Rosemary’s Baby (R)
Silence of the Lambs (R)
Carrie (R)
The Ring (R)
The Goonies (PG)
Dracula (R)
Gremlins (PG)
Cloverfield (R)
The Blair Witch Project (R)
Zombieland (R)
King Kong (PG-13)
Frankenstein (1994 – R)
Godzilla (PG-13)
Jaws (PG)
Alien (R)
It (or anything by Steven King…)
Scream (R)
American Psycho (R)
Pan’s Labyrinth (R)
Nosferatu (UR, silent film)

5. Film Assignments: Period 1
Carrie – McKenna, Annie, Alexa, Brooke, Meg
Zombieland – Bryan, Alex, Daniel
The Shining – Katey, Hannah, Nick
Don’t Breath – Daylen, Riley, Paul, Tanner, Jon
Alien – Ram, Luke, Lucas
The Ring – Matie, Izzy, Kailey, Aspen
American Psycho – Sarah, Jill, Alysha
Silence of the Lambs – Kelsey, Jess, Lauren

6. Film Assignments: Period 3
American Psycho – Suzanne, Emily, Reilly, Danika, Kendall
Pan’s Labryinth – Logan, Varun, Teddy, Colin
Alien – Noah, Chase, Fernando, Peter
The Ring – Marie, Jesenia, Julie, Jayna
The Shining – Katie, Kinsey, Maddie, Alija
Silence of the Lambs – Dylan, Pierson, Tony, Jack, Anthony
It – Kyle, Kona, Tanner, Benjamin
Edward Scissorhands – Taylor

7. Looking ahead… This weekend: watch your film! Monday: Work Period
Tuesday: Work Period
Wednesday: Work Period
Thursday: Film presentations will begin! 

8. J.J. Cohen’s 7 Monster Theses
Cohen is a professor at George Washington University
Wrote a book about monster culture & monster literature
We will be using the introduction of this book to help ground some of our conversations about monsters in more academic language

9. Group Activity
Visual representation of what Cohen’s thesis #4 is arguing
Bulleted main points
What are the most important things you took away from this thesis?
What would Cohen say about the monsters we have studied in this class? Where do they fit in here? Provide as many examples as you can!

10. Thesis IV: The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference
Cohen argues, "the monster is an incorporation of the Outside, the Beyond--of all those loci that are rhetorically placed as distant and distinct but originate Within" (7). What does he mean by the terms "Outside" and "Beyond"? How can these concepts be said to "originate Within"?
What social categories does "monstrous difference" tend to involve? What power does labeling a group "monstrous" give to the group using the label?
How does "scapegoating" fit into this argument (11)?

11. Cohen: Thesis 4 A monster is born through the difference of cultures
Political
Cultural
Economic
Sexual
Racial
Monsters are societal/cultural
Monsters are always an outsider, but that outsider is not always the same: depends on culture