Interdisciplinary essays on monsters and the monstrous : imagining monsters to understand our socio-political and psycho-emotional realities

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other. Understanding that the concept of the monster can be a political tool used to dehumanize opponents and a psychological tool that can help us reconsider...

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Other Authors: Schotanus, M. Susanne, (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Series: Emerald interdisciplinary connexions
Subjects:
Monsters in popular culture.
Monsters > Symbolic aspects.
Monsters > Social aspects.
Social Science > Sociology > General.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781801170291
Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages).

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245 0 0 |a Interdisciplinary essays on monsters and the monstrous :  |b imagining monsters to understand our socio-political and psycho-emotional realities /  |c edited by M. Susanne Schotanus. 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c 2022. 
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505 0 |a Introduction: Monsters and the monstrous / M. Susanne Schotanus Imagining Monsters -- Chapter 1. Malign by design: Imaginatively visualising lovecraft and the aesthetic of monstrosity / Gerard Gibson -- Chapter 2. Racial terror and the struggle for freedom in the hbo series lovecraft country / Elena Apostolaki -- Chapter 3. Media makes the monster: Battered and abused to monstrous killer / Melissa Blackie -- Chapter 4. Talking monsters / Gerard Gibson, Elena Apostolaki, and Melissa Blackie Gendered Monsters -- Chapter 5. Femicide on the frontier: Analysing motives behind the femicide crisis in ciudad juàrez / Chloë Isabel Olivo -- Chapter 6. Dragula and the expansive queerness of the drag supermonster / Russ Martin -- Chapter 7. X-men: The normative system disguised as mutant / Francesca Lopez -- Chapter 8. The making of monstrosity: Exploring the monster figure through the lens of gender / Chloë Isabel Olivo, Russ Martin, and Francesca Lopez Domestic Monsters -- Chapter 9. Mothers, monsters, & media: Examining the parallel between motherhood and the monster / Megan Johnson -- Chapter 10. Extra-diegesis, domesticity, and the uncanny in the transnational films of guillermo del toro / Woodrow Hood Concluding Thoughts on Monsters and the Monstrous / Woodrow Hood and M. Susanne Schotanus. 
520 |a Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other. Understanding that the concept of the monster can be a political tool used to dehumanize opponents and a psychological tool that can help us reconsider our beliefs, Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies. Introducing the innovative practice of "imagining monsters" as a way to rethink the key organizing principles in our society that we have traditionally taken for granted, the authors explore not only what monsters are but, most importantly, what monsters reveal about us. This cutting-edge collection of chapters challenges us to contradict worldviews, such as the binary of gender, that have organized our thinking for millennia. Showcasing discussions loaded with ontological, ideological, socio-political, and aesthetic implications, the monstrous is rendered uncannily familiar as our own public and domestic socio-political and psycho-emotional realities are subjected to scrutiny. Launching a critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do? The authors show us how the study of monsters and monstrosity is perfectly positioned to answer. Tackling this question from a unique interdisciplinary scope, the research presented in the chapters are interesting reading for a variety of researchers interested in monsters and the monstrous from across sub-disciplines. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a Monsters in popular culture. 
650 0 |a Monsters  |x Symbolic aspects. 
650 0 |a Monsters  |x Social aspects. 
650 7 |a Social Science  |x Sociology  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Sociology.  |2 bicssc 
655 7 |a elektronické knihy  |7 fd186907  |2 czenas 
655 9 |a electronic books  |2 eczenas 
700 1 |a Schotanus, M. Susanne,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781801170284 
776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781801170277 
856 4 0 |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/9781801170277  |y Full text 

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