List of Names and Terms


Abortion

Acromegaly

Adaptation

Adoption

“Adult Child” killer

Agamben, Giorgio

Agency

Alien (film series)

Almond, Barbara

Ariès, Philippe

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)


Baartman, Saartjie

Balaguero, Jaumé

Battaglia, Debbora

Bayona, Juan Antonio

Benjamin, Walter

Benshoff, Harry

Benzedrine

Beowulf (character)

Beowulf (poem)

Beowulf and Grendel (film)

Berland, Elaine

Big Pharma

Birth

Birth of a Nation

Black Bodies, White Gazes

Blade Runner

Blum, Virginia L.

“body genre”

Bond Stockton, Kathryn

Bordo, Susan

Bradbury, Mary

Brain death

Brains (novel)

Breast-feeding

Breathers (novel)

Browning, John Edgar

Browning, Tod

Bruhm, Steven

Burcar, Jillian


Carpenter, John

Carroll, Noël

Caruth, Cathy

Castañeda, Claudia

Central Park

Century of the Child

child-savage analogy

Childhood

Childishness

“Childlike”

“Childness”

Children of Men

Christine (film)

Clayton, Jack

Clomid

Clover, Carol J.

Cocteau, Jean

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Cohen, Larry

Corea, Gena

Corpse

Count Dracula (character)

Creed, Barbara

Cronenberg, David

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood


Dark Romance

Darwin, Charles

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dead Alive

Dead baby jokes

Death

Death Wish

Deleuze, Gilles

del Toro, Guillermo

Demon Seed

The Devil’s Backbone

The Dialectic of Sex

Dirt

Disability

Dr. Frankenstein (Victor)

Don’t Answer the Phone!

Don’t Go in the House

Douglas, Mary

Dracula (novel)

Dracula (1931 film)

DTC (Direct-To-Consumer) advertising

Du Bois, W.E.B.


Edelman, Lee

Embryo (film)

Les Enfants Terribles (film)

Les Enfants Terribles (novel)

Enfreakment

Enlightenment

Eraserhead

Erice, Victor

Exorcism

The Exorcist (film)

Extant


Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

Fatal Attraction

Fertility/infertility

Fetal container

Fetus

Filmic Body

Firestone, Shulamith

Foucault, Michel

Frankenstein (novel)

Frankenstein’s Monster

Freaks (film)

Freeland, Cynthia

Friday the 13th (1980)

Friedkin, William

The Funhouse (1981)


Genet, Jean

Girlhood

“Girlness”

Godwin, William

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Goffman, Erving

Gork

Gothic

Grace

Greil, Arthur

Grendel

Greven, David

Grosz, Elisabeth

Gunnarson, Sturla


Haeckel, Ernst

Halberstam, Judith/Jack

Hallenbeck, Bruce

Halloween (1978)

Halloween II (1981)

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

handicapped

Hanna

Hard Candy

Hays, Sharon

Hell Night (1981)

Henderson, Carol E.

Heywood, Colin

Hill, Debra

Hills, Matt

Hitchcock, Alfred

Holt, Seth

Holy terror(s)

The Holy Terrors

Homosexuality

Honeyman, Susan

Hooper, Tobe

Horror (affect/emotion)

Horror (film genre)

Hottentot Venus

Huckvale, David

Humongous

Hutcheon, Linda

Hutchings, Peter

Hyperactive

Hyperkinetic


Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

The Innocents

Intensive motherhood

Interview with the Vampire (film)

It’s Alive (1974)

It’s Alive (2008)


Jackson, Peter

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association )

Jason Voorhees

Jaws (film 1977)

Just Before Dawn (1981)


Kant, Immanuel

Keathley, Christian

Key, Ellen

Kick-Ass (film)

Kincaid, James

King, Stephen

Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down

Kristeva, Julia

Kubrick, Stanley


Lacan, Jacques

Let Me In

Let the Right One In (film)

Lewy Body Dementia (LBD)

Liminality

Lolita (film)

Lolita (novel)

Losey, Joseph

Lowenstein, Adam

Lynch, David


MacCormack, Patricia

Marsh, Margaret

Mask Maker

May, Elaine Tyler

MBD

McGowan, Todd

Medicalization

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Methylphenidate

Michael Myers

Midgley, Mary

Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD)

Mitchell, David T.

Mittman, Asa

mongoloid (pathology)

Monsters in the Closet

Monstrosity

Monstrous-childness

Motherhood mandate

Mrs. (Angela) Voorhees

“My hideous progeny”


Nabokov, Vladimir

The Nameless

Narcolepsy

Neroni, Hilary

The New England Journal of Medicine

Newman, Kim

Night of the Dead: Leben Tod

The Nightcomers

Norman Bates


“Obsessive Avenger”

O’Keefe, Katherine O’Brien

Old Testament

Oliver, Kelly

The Omen

Oneroid

Orphan (film)

The Orphanage

Osborn, Marijane


Paganism

Parkinson’s disease (PD)

Peck, M. Scott

Pediatrics

Pedophilia/pedophile

Peeping Tom

Performance

Pirie, David

Polanski, Roman

Prometheus (film)

Pro-natalism

Psycho (1960 film)


Raise Ravens

Rancière, Jacques

Religious preoccupations

REM behavioral disorder

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The Ring

Ritalin

Romantic child

Romanticism

Rosemary’s Baby (film)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rusnak, Joseph


Sanger, Margaret

Sargent, John Singer

Saura, Carlos

Scott, Ridley

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Seizure

Shakespeare, William

Shelley, Mary

The Shining (film)

Slasher films

Sleep specialist

Sleepaway Camp

Sleeping Beauty (fairytale)

Smith, Klein & French

Snyder, Sharon L.

Sobchack, Vivian

Solet, Paul

The Spirit of the Beehive

Splice

Springer, Claudia

Stigma

Stimulant

Still-birth

Sulzbacher, S.I.

Sutton, Travis


Teras, teratology

Transgression

Trauma


Ussher, Jane


Vampire

Victorian

Vigilantism

Virilio, Paul

The Visitor


Waldeman, Diane

Wechter, Marilyn

Williams, Linda

Wojik-Andrews, Ian

Wood, Robin

Woodson, Stephani Etheridge

Wordsworth, William

Wright, Joe


Yancy, George


Zemeckis, Robert

Žižek, Slavoj

Zombie

Zombie Babies (film)

Zupancic, Alenka