Lit Theories
This literary theory ignores the author's life and intentions when examining the "ultimate meaning" of a piece of media.
What is Death of the Author?
Based on the 1818 novel, a narcissistic scientist grows clinically insane as his creation begs him for companionship in this 1931 film.
What is Frankenstein?
In this 1959 novel, a man with DID develops an alter of his abusive mother and another alter, the caretaker of the family motel.
What is Psycho?
An autistic man is the youngest member of a family of cannibals in this 1974 film often referred to as an allegory for the Vietnam War.
What is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
A deaf family has to protect each other from monsters that hunt by sound in this 2018 film (this film was shot right in my home county!).
What is A Quiet Place?
This form of literary criticism argues that the reader's reactions to a piece of media is just as valuable in understanding said media as the media's contents itself.
What is Reader-Response Criticism?
This 1910 novel's titular character is an autistic and physically deformed musician whose heart breaks upon losing his muse.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Based on a 1960 novel, Bette Davis's relationship with her physically disabled sister fills with mutual hatred after her sister's movie career overshadows her own in this 1962 film.
What is Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
In this 1980 film, an autistic and physically deformed boy drowns while he's at summer camp. His mother decides to take revenge.
What is Friday the 13th?
An autistic man has to protect his horse ranch from alien attacks in this 2022 film.
What is Nope?
This literary theory examines a text within the context of its socio-cultural environment.
What is Cultural Study Theory?
What is Freaks?
After his daughter is disfigured in a car accident, her mad scientist father harvests the skin of other women in an attempt to reconstruct her face in this 1960 film.
What is Eyes Without a Face?
This 1974 novel culminates in a religiously traumatized autistic woman's autistic meltdown at her school.
What is Carrie?
Based on the 1846 Penny Dreadful series, a barber with PTSD takes revenge on the Londoners who tortured his wife to clinical insanity in this 2007 film.
What is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
This form of literary criticism emerged in the middle of the twentieth century to reflect the fractured and dissonant experience of twentieth-century life. It is most commonly understood as rejecting modernist ideas of unified narrative.
What is Post-Modernist Criticism?
Based on an 1831 novel, a man with kyphosis leaves his church when he falls in love with a Romani girl in this 1939 film.
What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Based on a 1966 play, a blind woman has to outwit a group of criminals after her husband accidentally leads them to her house by unknowingly bringing home a doll full of heroin in this 1967 film.
What is Wait Until Dark?
An autistic actor portrays a deranged psychologist in this 1991 movie based on a 1988 novel.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
A psychotic ballerina hallucinates her way into getting the starring role in this 2010 film.
What is Black Swan?
This form of literary theory abandoned ideas of formal and structural cohesion, questioning any assumed “universal truths” as reliant on the social structure that influenced them.
What is Post-Structuralist Criticism?
Based on an 1869 novel, this 1928 film features a man with Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA). He would later provide the main inspiration for DC Comic's character "The Joker."
What is The Man Who Laughs?
In this 1961 hammer horror film, Christopher Lee diagnoses a wheelchair-bound heiress with neurosis when she keeps seeing her father's corpse around her recently inherited estate.
What is Taste of Fear?
An amputee has a groovy time fighting zombies when he's trapped in a cabin in the woods in this 1987 film.
What is Evil Dead 2?
A girl with C-PTSD's hallucinations of a loving family are interrupted by her real-world abusive family in this 2020 musical film.
What is OPAL?