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Thursday, October 12, 2023
Get Your Monster On In Time For Halloween At University Of California, Santa Cruz
www.forbes.com: Monsters aren’t a Halloween gimmick at the University of California, Santa Cruz. For the Banana Slugs–the school’s nickname–they’re about that life. In 2019, the school founded a Center for Monster Studies, the only such program of its kind in America.
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Ana Schroeder
said...
This article is very different than the ones I read typically, because it is less obviously theatre-based. It is more about art and how the expression of creation can lead to political nuances. That being said I still thoroughly enjoyed the article, particularly how it centered around women artists in the mid-1900s. I am still deciding where I would like to end up in the theatrical world, but this intrigues the design part of my brain. To come up with something as silly as monsters that have such interesting social and political connotations is something I find hard to fathom doing with my life. That is not to say I am not intrigued by it and I respect these women immensely for their work. They are paving the way for women to be heroes. When I think of the media I consumed as a child I can only remember women being either villains or being a “good guy” but never on their own, always in tandem with a man.
I clicked on this article because one of my best friends went to UCSC for a year, hated it, and then transferred. I thought that the fact that this class is offered though is super funny because she would totally take it. I feel like UCs in general, as a public school, has a lot more official fun classes, similar to Carnegie Mellon's stucos. It's like a stuco but a real class. It's crazy to think that they have a whole department for Monser Studies. I think that sometimes these fun and quirky history classes are important to be offered because in what other setting would you be able to get a formal quality education on silly matters. But this article has shown me that Monster Studies can get pretty serious. They offer a unique perspective on geopolitics, popular culture, technology, and human understanding. I feel like you can always learn important values from even the silliest things, and the center believes that studying monsters helps people understand themselves and the world around them, fostering empathy and critical thinking.
Before I first clicked on this article, I could have never guessed where it was headed. I am shocked and delighted there is a Center for Monster Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. I am so fascinated that this even exists and am curious to learn more about what the findings from their research can tell us about our society. Last semester I worked on Orion and the Goatman which had a monster in it. I wonder if in her dramaturgy research of our dramaturg got into some of the philosophical explanations on what the Goatman represented to our playwright and to the show. I can positively say our costume designer never looked at any of that research. I wished this article went into more detail on why the exhibition is called “Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandos”: I am unsure if these are famous comics that I am just unaware of.
3 comments:
This article is very different than the ones I read typically, because it is less obviously theatre-based. It is more about art and how the expression of creation can lead to political nuances. That being said I still thoroughly enjoyed the article, particularly how it centered around women artists in the mid-1900s. I am still deciding where I would like to end up in the theatrical world, but this intrigues the design part of my brain. To come up with something as silly as monsters that have such interesting social and political connotations is something I find hard to fathom doing with my life. That is not to say I am not intrigued by it and I respect these women immensely for their work. They are paving the way for women to be heroes. When I think of the media I consumed as a child I can only remember women being either villains or being a “good guy” but never on their own, always in tandem with a man.
I clicked on this article because one of my best friends went to UCSC for a year, hated it, and then transferred. I thought that the fact that this class is offered though is super funny because she would totally take it. I feel like UCs in general, as a public school, has a lot more official fun classes, similar to Carnegie Mellon's stucos. It's like a stuco but a real class. It's crazy to think that they have a whole department for Monser Studies. I think that sometimes these fun and quirky history classes are important to be offered because in what other setting would you be able to get a formal quality education on silly matters. But this article has shown me that Monster Studies can get pretty serious. They offer a unique perspective on geopolitics, popular culture, technology, and human understanding. I feel like you can always learn important values from even the silliest things, and the center believes that studying monsters helps people understand themselves and the world around them, fostering empathy and critical thinking.
Before I first clicked on this article, I could have never guessed where it was headed. I am shocked and delighted there is a Center for Monster Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. I am so fascinated that this even exists and am curious to learn more about what the findings from their research can tell us about our society. Last semester I worked on Orion and the Goatman which had a monster in it. I wonder if in her dramaturgy research of our dramaturg got into some of the philosophical explanations on what the Goatman represented to our playwright and to the show. I can positively say our costume designer never looked at any of that research. I wished this article went into more detail on why the exhibition is called “Werewolf Hunters, Jungle Queens, and Space Commandos”: I am unsure if these are famous comics that I am just unaware of.
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