Mariah: If you gave me a bunch of fancy cheeses, I’m there. I’m not asking any questions. In this episode, we chat about Coraline! Our focus is primarily on the 2009 film, but we also discuss the book, published in 2002. Topics include motherhood, fatherhood, childhood, girlhood, gender roles, domesticity, homes & haunted houses, dolls, and what to do when your literary heroes turn out to be monsters. What whimsical hobby does “other” you practice? What would the other mother use to lure you into her trap? Let us know at unwellfans@gmail.com Sources: “There Is No Safe Word.” Vulture, January 2025. Almeida, Danielle. “‘It Can Cry, It Can Speak, It Can Pee’: Modality Values and Playing Affordances in Contemporary Baby Dolls’ Discourse.” Ilha Do Desterro [Florianópolis], vol. 71, no. 3, September 2018, pp. 143–60. Dederer, Claire. Monsters : A Fan’s Dilemma. First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. French, Dawn, et al. Coraline. Alliance Films, 2009. Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Made to Play House : Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930. Yale University Press, 1993. Gaiman, Neil, and Dave McKean. Coraline. 1st ed., HarperCollins, 2002. Jaime Segura San Miguel. “Monomyth, Mirrors, and Maddening Mothers—Otherized Female Identity in Coraline.” Hypercultura (București. Online), vol. 13, June 2025, pp. 1–12. Palkovich, Einat Natalie. “The ‘Mother’ of All Schemas: Creating Cognitive Dissonance in Children’s Fantasy Literature Using the Mother Figure.” Children’s Literature in Education [Dordrecht], vol. 46, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 175–89. Content note: In this episode we discuss spiders, rats, mice, child abuse and neglect,and sexual violence. Music: Clown - Sakura Girl https://soundcloud.com/sakuragirl_official Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://www.audiolibrary.com.co/sakura-girl/clown Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/jkNyf6ejiYQ Transcription available upon request. Email us at unwellfans@gmail.com
