Heather Lawver and the Defense Against the Dark Arts Campaign vs. Warner Brothers (2001)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-02-

22-potter.htm

After her friends were threatened, Lawver, the

creator of a site called www.dprophet.com (named for The

Daily Prophet, a magical newspaper in the Potter books),

says she had had enough and decided to organize the

boycott.

http://memoirsofcomposition.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/the-daily-prophet/

Mary Shelley 1797 - 1851

• Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (published 1818)• Over her lifetime she published 30 other books

• At first audiences couldn’t believe she wrote the book and attributed it to her husband

The Life of Mary Shelley Website

Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse Novels/ Southern Vampires“In a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin", Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress,

discovers a new world of different creatures when she meets Bill Compton, a vampire.”

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2363895/

The series consists of 13 novels total. Harris’ third novel series.

• Why do you think people like fantasy horror or monsters?• Do you think that capitalism is vampyric in nature? If so is it the

producers or the consumers who give their life’s blood?• Do you see any significance in women portrayed as victims or

romantic heroines in this genre?• Does hormone intensity in puberty contribute to the interest in

the fight/flight response or adrenaline/endorphin rush from horror?

• Is fantasy/horror as a genre necessarily occult in nature or is the occultism aesthetic primarily a simulacrum, yjay is moy truly bone chilling?

• How much of attraction to the monster genre is a panopticon effect for working out dormant complex emotional issues?