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Monsters vs. Patriarchy: Toxic Imagination in Global Horror Cinema: Global Media and Race

Autor Patricia Saldarriaga, Emy Manini
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2025
Across the globe, the violent effects of patriarchy are manifest. Women, trans people, gender-nonconforming people, and the racialized Other are regularly subjected to physical danger, beginning with the denial of vitally important health care, and, in its most horrific form, rape, trafficking, and murder. Monsters vs. Patriarchy links these real-world horrors to the monstrification and dehumanization of people as expressed in contemporary global cinema. This monstrification has been achieved through a toxic imagination attributed to women, a trait that historically referred to the power of women to negatively affect others, including their own children in the womb, with only the use of their imagination. This process reflects the misogynist and racist world in which we live, where female bodies, people of color, and alternative identities represent a threat to patriarchal power.

Monsters vs. Patriarchy examines female monstrosity as it appears in horror films from around the world and considers specific political, scientific, and historical contexts to better understand how we construct and reconstruct monstrosity, using an intersectional approach to examine the imposition of gender and racial hierarchies that support national power structures. The authors contend that monstrous female cinematic subjects, including ghosts, witches, cannibals, and posthuman beings, are becoming empowered, using the tools of their monstrification to smash the colonial, white supremacist, and misogynist structures that created them.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978838093
ISBN-10: 1978838093
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 20 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Global Media and Race


Notă biografică

PATRICIA SALDARRIAGA is a professor of Luso-Hispanic studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. Among her publications, she is a coauthor of Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies (Rutgers University Press). 

EMY MANINI is an independent scholar working in contemporary literature and culture of the Americas. She is based in Seattle, Washington. She earned her PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Washington in 2002. She is a coauthor of Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies (Rutgers University Press).

Cuprins

Contents
Preface           
1. The Toxic Imagination: A Continuous History in Patriarchal Societies                     
2. Reproductive and Gendered Body Horror: Monstrous Misogyny                
3. A Phenomenological Approach to Hauntology: Ghost Abortion, Rapes, Femicides, Vigilance, and the Afterlife        
4. The Coloniality of Cannibalism: Eating, Selling, and the Offerings of Racialized and Genderized Bodies                  
5. The Body of the Witch: Corporal Punishment, Pedagogies of Cruelty, and Religious Delusion
6. Posthuman Monsters: Blurring the Borders of Humanity                                                     
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography  
Filmography
Index
 

Descriere

Monsters vs. Patriarchy examines female monstrosity as it appears in horror films from around the world and considers specific political, scientific, and historical contexts to better understand how we construct and reconstruct monstrosity, using an intersectional approach to examine the imposition of gender and racial hierarchies that support national power structures and horrorize female and other subjects.