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Guest Post by Miguel Rodriguez… How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Monster: Overcoming the Stigma of the Horror Genre
It is important to remember that the stories I’ve mentioned were never really called “horror stories” because horror as a genre is essentially a ploy to make certain properties more marketable to a segment of the population.
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
" I can see where it's alarming to see your kid looking like a corpse, but it's all part of rebellion, of saying the "regular" world of mortgages and wars and nuclear meltdown frightens them and they want to distance themselves from it..."
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Chat with Psychoanalyst Jack Schwartz
"The zombie consciousness reflects the perfect expression of equal rights in society. There is no difference between boys and the girls in this world—hunger is the organizing principle."
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Just-For-Fun Giveaway: Zombie Cupcakes Book
The tendency is to group fictional treatments of pop culture archetypes such as zombies with similar texts of fiction, but actually non-fiction texts such as this one can be far more reflective of fandom-based learning...
Guest Post by Miguel Rodriguez: “Something is happening! Send your critical thinkers quick!”
Entire worlds have been opened to me as the direct result of my independent studies into what some would call “low brow,” “exploitative,” or “disreputable” art forms.
(Re)Connecting the Pop: The Hunger Games, Election 2012, Ray Bradbury, The Avengers
Revisiting some of the pop culture topics covered here over the past few months by way of sharing some related links that get at media literacy, visual literacy, and transliteracy.
The R.L. Stine Interview, Part 3: Kids and Horror
"I was once called—and maybe by School Library Journal, actually—a 'literary training bra for Stephen King.'"
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