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 Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesEmerald interdisciplinary connexions
Subjects
Monsters in popular culture.
Monsters > Symbolic aspects.
Monsters > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801170291
DOI10.1108/9781801170277
Physical Description1 online resource (268 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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