This is my class on the 1941 The Wolf Man, starring Lon Chaney Jr. Feel free to share it widely! I’ll respond to comments and questions by email or on twitter @doctormoffett!
Here is a list of books, articles, essays, and movies I consulted in preparation for this lecture:
Amit S. "Ontology and Monstrosity." Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader. Ed. Marina Levina and Diem-My T. Bui. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 15–32.
Cade, Octava. “Moonlight and Silver Bullets: Twentieth Century Racial Purity in Werewolf Films.” All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts, ed by Verena Bernardi, Frank Jacob. Vernon, 2019.
Coudray, Chantal Bourgault Du.The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast WithinI.B.Tauris, 2006.
De Quincey, Thomas. The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Including All His Contributions to Periodical Literature. A. & C. Black, 1863.
Gagliani Caputo, Marcello. Universal Monsters: Epic Monsters in Black and White. Babelcube, 2016.
Genette, Gärard. Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree. U Nebraska P, 1997.
Glut, Donald F. The Frankenstein Archive: Essays on the Monster, the Myth, the Movies, and More. McFarland, 2002.
Maniquis, Robert. "De Quincey, Varieties of the Palimpsest, and the Unconscious." Romanticism 17.3 (2011): 309-18.
Mittman, Asa Simon and Marcus Hensel. Introduction to Classic Readings on Monster Theory: Demonstrare Volume 1. ARC Humanities, 2018. ix-xv.
Peirse, Alison. After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film. I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Sconduto, Leslie A. Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. McFarland, 2008.
Waggner, George et al. The Wolf Man. Fullscreen. ed., Universal Studios, 2000. DVD.
Walker, Stuart et al. Werewolf of London. Universal Studios, 1935. Amazon Prime.
Weaver, Tom. “Feature Commentary” on George Waggner et al. The Wolf Man. Fullscreen. ed., Universal Studios, 2000.
Plus wikipedia and IMDB to double check actor and crew member names and dates.
The motion picture The Wolf Man copyright by Universal Studios, 1941.
Werewolf of London copyright Universal Studios, 1935.
My use of clips from copyrighted materials in this lecture is fair use since the material is used in an educational context for analysis of the text, the clips are not presented in such as way as to diminish the market or value of the copyrighted work, I am not profiting from the use of the copyrighted material, and the total quoted material is equal to less than 10% of the content of the copyrighted film.
The Wolf Man is available to rent via YouTube and Google Play and probably elsewhere too!