Nonfiction Horror & Science Fiction Lit and Film Theory
Nonfiction Reading List
Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
Thomas Morawetz
Men, Makeup and Monsters: Hollywood's Masters of Illusion and FX (forward by Clive Barker)
(1996) Anthony Timpone of Fangoria Magazine
Horror: The Film Reader
Book of essays, Edited by Mark Janovich (Writers include luminaries such as Barbara Creed and Carol J. Clover)
Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
David J. Skal
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
Book of essays, Edited by Barry Keith Grant
The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless
Book of essays, Edited by Richard GReene and K. Silem Mohammad
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Book of essays, Edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
Darko Suvin
The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader
Book of essays, Edited by Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kath Woodward, Fiona Hovenden
Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence
Andy Clark
Cyborg Citizen
Chris Hables Gray
Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace
Edited by Nina Lykke and Rosi Braidotti
Background
I've always been a fan of speculative fiction and films since childhood (horror, science fiction, fantasy, cyborg, apocalypse, you name it). While at the University of MN, I twisted my English and CompLit degree into a genre playground for myself, a place where I could study and write on the subject matter I loved most. I was presented with some amazing nonfiction as part of my curriculum and through that, found more on my own as related to my studies. Definitely not an exhaustive list, just some titles that I particularly enjoyed.
