Original Metropolis V.s Anime Metropolis

Melody J. Acosta Blog Post 1 9/21/08 Ok so I just finished watching the anime version of metropolis and I thought it was so completely different from the original one. For one, the anime metropolis was a little more futuristic having robot workers instead of the lower classed human workers that the original metropolis had. [...]

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Response to A Zombie Manifesto

Erin Cunningham September 29, 2008 Some of the main points in Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry’s A Zombie Manifesto brought to mind, not the zombies of Night of the Living Dead, but the Reavers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly/Serenity Universe. Although not part of the Undead, I would argue that Reavers share too many traits [...]

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“Night of the Living Dead”

Night of the Living Dead produced in 1968 and directed by George Romero is a sci-fi horror thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.  After watching it tonight I learned that it was originally going to be titled “Night of the Flesh eaters,” but that was deemed too gory by the distributors.  [...]

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24 Hour Comic Book Day

This could be really interesting, especially if you’re interested in doing a comic book for your creative project. The people at Pulp Nouveau know where the local 24 Hour Comic Day is being held in Canandaigua. Contact them for more information. (Scott McCloud, who wrote Understanding Comics, which we’ll be reading soon, is one of [...]

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Metropolis

Alex Bryce 9/16/08 Blog Post #2 First, I just wanted to say that Metropolis was the first black-and-white silent movie I’ve ever seen! Because I watch TV and movies with subtitles/closed captions, I had no problem reading the dialogue and the plot summaries on the screen. However, it was slightly disorientating not to be able [...]

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call for submissions from NANO NEWSLETTER

FALL SUBMISSIONS We are taking a new spin on submissions this fall. Writers interested in submitting their work should check our website for weekly prompts and examples of previously accepted material. Submissions are rolling and are not limited to University of Houston students. We are currently reading short stories, prose, experimental works, and comics of [...]

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A Thought on Skin Shows

Kate Coley I finally have found some time to blog! I know we have been discussing Frankenstein like craaazzzyy, and most of this stuff has been said already, but I really just wanted to get some ideas out there. Here goes… I really wanted to talk about something that was brought up in “Skin Shows” that [...]

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Cyborg article

http://www.slate.com/id/2199787/&gt1=38001 I thought this looked interesting!

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“Horror Movies and ‘Torture Porn’”

I just found a really interesting blog post (after following a link from a blog post by another blogger I follow semi-regularly).  You can find it at http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/horror-movies-a.html The author, Elizabeth Black, comments that “There is something cathartic about a good horror movie. The suspense and terror are often accompanied by scenes of either blatant [...]

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Answering the same question as in “Mirror Images…”

Bailey Meeker In “Mirror Images and Otherness in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by Dean Franco, Franco questions how Frankenstein can be horrified by his monster only after the monster becomes alive.  Franco’s answer is rather complex, interpreting Frankenstein’s monster as the manifestation of Frankenstein’s Oedipal complex and also interpreting Frankenstein’s monster as a symbol of language. [...]

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