Using one of Jeffrey Jerome Cohens seven theses about monsters and cultural anxiety, locate, identify, and analyze one particular monster as it appears in literature, on film, or on television.

Directions: Using one of Jeffrey Jerome Cohens seven theses about monsters and cultural
anxiety, locate, identify, and analyze one particular monster as it appears in literature, on film, or
on television. Explain the monsters cultural function (or multiple functions), including both how
the monster indicates and gives voice to a particular cultural anxiety
and
how the monsters
packaging (in film, etc.) functions to justify, strengthen, or distract from social, racial, gendered,
sexual, or political hierarchies in the status quo. In your analysis, incorporate Ingebretsens
argument of the necessity of monsters to the social order, how [m]onsters show us who we are
by demonstrating what we shall be if (or when) we fail to keep up our necessary social
performance, one by which we
show
(
prove
, more like it) that we are human (29), functioning
as both a symptom of civic distress as well as an antidote (29).
Make sure your thesis/central claim is arguable, that you are not simply asserting a factual truth.
You are to cite (in MLA style with 12 point, Times New Roman font, and one inch margins)
Cohen three times and Ingebretsen three times, as well as
at least
one other peer-reviewed article
of your choosing
plus
the primary source itself. The paper should include a Works Cited page,
formatted, as well, in MLA style. Not including the Works Cited page, the paper should be 6-8
pages long (typed, double-spaced).
Note:
In addition to the peer-reviewed article, this paper should quote extensively from the
primary source (the text in which the monster is located: film, novel, play, poem, etc.). It is

anxiety, locate, identify, and analyze one particular monster as it appears in literature, on film, or

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