Blog Post #7: Monster

Watch "Monster" by Kanye West [MONSTER, Kanye West] then read Latoya Peterson's "Black Monsters/White Corpses: Kanye's Racialized Gender Politics" and assess Peterson's reading of the video. Do you think that she's correct in suggesting that "Kanye is...upholding the ideals of white supremacy" or is she tailoring the video to meet her own expectations? Clarify and support your answer.

N.B. This video contains language and images that may disturb some people.

Blog Post #6: Psycho

In 1960, Hitchcock altered the horror genre. With Psycho, the "slasher flick" was born, but rarely has the "villain" been so complex.

Looking past the mere figure of the murderer, try to identify a monster in this film that isn't immediately obvious. What themes motivate the film? How does the film deal with these themes? How might the film be addressing the "monstrous" outside the simple, murderous cycle of the central killer? In other words, if the killer isn't the only monster in this film, what else are you meant to fear?