This was a session to identify characteristics of the Monster.
Film
sequences
Funny Monsters, in Roald Dahl's BFG , and in Joe
Dante's sequence of monster movies.
The
Fly , (Kurt Neuman 1958)
The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman) the monster attacks
Papageno
The Magic Flute (David Hockney)
The
Thief of Bagdad ( Michael Powell, 1940, the genie in the
bottle)
Into the Woods,(Steven Sondheim's musical based
on Fairy Stories, with a narrative twist)
The Alien
They Live ( directed by John Carpenter, 1988)
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel,
1956)
The Monster as Critique of Society
The Stuff ( written and directed by Larry Cohen,
1985)
Zombies, Dawn of the Dead (directed by George Romero
1979)
Metropolis ( directed by Fritz Lang, 1926)
The Preacher ; Night of the Hunter,(directed by
Charles Laughton1955)
Bluto; Popeye,(directed by Robert Altman 1980)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (directed by Tobe Hooper 1974)
Halloween , (directed by John Carpenter, 1978)
Meet Me in St.Louis, ( directed by Vincente Minelli,
1944,the Night of Halloween, )
It's Alive,(written and directed by Larry Cohen,
1974)
Brats,Laurel and Hardy. (1930)
Goya, The Sleep of Reasons beget Monsters
Le Brun, animal physiognomy
A Range of Faces; B.R.Haydon, I smell a Stink
Nigel Henderson, Heads, The Whole Man
F.X.Messerschmidt, expressions and gravity heads
Cagney as Jeckyll and Hyde
Goya, The Giant; Caprichos and Witches
The Banality of the Monster, Philip Guston and Faceless Men
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TONSON'S
EDITION OF Paradise Lost London 1688
Cartari's
Classical Mythology, Padua 1603
A
recently observed Monster from a broadsheet c1701
Hartmann
Schedel, Liber Chronicarum, Nuremburg 1493
The Captive Mermaid by Matania
Jacques
Callot,The Temptation of St.Anthony, etching
Monsters
and Giant in the comic Nugget
Hartman Schedel, The Anti-Christ from the Liber Cronicarum, Nuremburg 1493
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