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Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television

Editat de Cristina Artenie, Ashley Szanter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2017
The ubiquitous presence of the monstrous on screen evokes myriad interpretations. In certain cases, we love to love the monster. In others, we bond over mutual desire to see it conquered, vanquished. The inherent mutability of the monster provides us with endless opportunities to reimagine, re-envision, and reencounter these creatures. In its entirety, this volume endeavours to examine how 21st-century media presents and contends with the body and mind of the monster. What do they reveal about us culturally, individually, as a community? What can we learn from them? This volume contains discussions and dissections of monsters across multiple media and geographical origins. However, the notable shifts in how we engage monsters and monstrosity feature heavily in this volume. Our contributors tackle resurrections of previous series and conversations through films like Jurassic World and Krampus. Others gravitate towards the rebirth of some of the older, tried and true monsters like vampires and zombies, including analyses of Pride and Prejudice + Zombies, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, iZombie, and Teen Wolf all of which reinterpreted and reinvented these creatures for the modern audience. While the text serves to address these new iterations of the Classic monsters in the cannon, others look at strangers, more fringe monster narratives like Pans Labyrinth, The Village, or even the very real parasitic monstrosities of Monsters Inside Me.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780995029187
ISBN-10: 0995029180
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Universitas Press
Colecția Universitas Press

Cuprins

Introduction / Ashley Szanter; Loving Monsters: Understanding Horror Fiction Consumption as a Response to the Uncertainty of American Identity / Marylou Naumoff; The Enemy Within: Deconstructing the Emerging Femininity in Contemporary Monster Films / Coco D'Hont; Twice Dead: Gender, Class, and Crisis in Pride and Prejudice + Zombies / Erin Casey-Williams and Erika Cornelius Smith; Monstrous Parasites, Monstrous Selves / Kristine Larsen; Spot the Monster: Pack, Identity, and Humanity in MTV's Teen Wolf / Tracy Thomas; Sticking Together a Soul: Plato, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and I, Frankenstein / Heather L. Duda; That's Not a Real Dinosaur: The Indominus Rex and Monstrosity in Jurassic World / Brooke Southgate; The Shadow of Saint Nicholas: Doughertys Krampus / Alissa Burger and Jenny Collins; Unmasking the Bite: Pleasure, Sexuality, and Vulnerability in the Vampire Series / Tatiana Prorokova; Zombie Blues: The Depressing Rise of the Living Dead in Contemporary Television / Alberto N. Garcia; The Monster at the End of This Book: Authorship and Monstrosity in Supernatural / Jessica George; Notes on Contributors