1. Monsters and Horror

2. What Is A Monster? The History of Monsters Why Monsters? What Do Monsters Mean? Monsters Now

3. What Is A Monster?

10. The History of Monsters

11. Ancient Greeks Monsters occur when natural order is disrupted Deformity occurs when the pregnant woman sees something which startles her

12. The Middle Ages Monsters came from God and the Devil, they were caused by stars and comets, they resulted from copulation with other species and from flaws in their parents' anatomies.

13. Modern Times “Something out of the common order of nature.” - Dr. Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

14. Modern Times “Originally: a mythical creature which is part animal and part human, or combines elements of two or more animal forms, and is frequently of great size and ferocious appearance. Later, more generally: any imaginary creature that is large, ugly, and frightening.” - Oxford English Dictionary

15. Why Monsters?

16. Fear Repulsion Attraction Unthinkable Unmanageable

17. What Do Monsters Mean?

18. Literal and symbolic Cultural categories Manage contradictions

19. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Fear: Technology / Religion Human vs the creature

20. Splice Vincenzo Natali 2009 Fear: Biomedia Human ambition

21. Prometheus Ridley Scott 2012 Fear: Biomedia Engineers vs humans

22. Night of the Living Dead George Romero 1968 Fear: Ourselves Racism and consumerism

23. 28 Days Later Danny Boyle 2002 Fear: Viruses Foreigners and countermeasures

24. The Walking Dead 2010 Fear: Society's end Humans vs humans

25. Monsters Now