Monsters and the monstrous : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / edited by Niall Scott.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Description
228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Related name
Series
  • At the interface/probing the boundaries v. 38. [More in this series]
  • At the interface/Probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; v. 38
Summary note
Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and filmography (p. 147).
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Monstrous origins : histories from the deep and transformed humans (where ever they come from, they keep coming)
  • "Monster sewers" : experiencing London's main drainage system / Pual Dobraszczyk
  • Ontological anxiety made flesh : the zombie in literature, film and culture / Kevin Alexander Boon
  • The zombie as barometer of cultural anxiety / Peter Dendle
  • The monster and the political (once they get into politics you can't get rid of them)
  • Dracula as ethnic conflict : the technologies of "humanitarian intervention" in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo / Neda Atanasoski
  • Kultur-terror : the composite monster in Nazi visual propaganda / Kristen Williams Backer
  • The anarchist as monster in fin-de-siècle Europe / Elun Gabriel
  • Familial monsters (maybe some of them are regular folk like you and me)
  • Family, race, and citizenship in Disney's Lilo and Stitch / Emily Cheng
  • The enemy within : the child as terrorist in the contemporary American horror fillm / Colette Balmain
  • 'Monstrous mothers' and the media / Nicola Goc
  • Of monsters, masturbators and markets : autoerotic desire, sexual exchange and the cinematic serial killer / Greg Tuck
  • Miscellaneous monsters (they can be evil, male, female, but most importantly beware, they can be cute.)
  • Nobody's meat : freedom through monstrosity in contemporary British fiction / Ben Barootes
  • God hates us all : Kant, radical evil and the diabolical monstrous human in heavy metal / Niall Scott
  • Monstrous/cute : notes on the ambivalent nature of cuteness / Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska.
ISBN
  • 9789042022539 (pbk.)
  • 9042022531 (pbk.)
OCLC
176055573
RCP
H - S
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