Monstrosity from the inside out / edited by Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Marko Teodorski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cutler-Broyles, Teresa, editor.

Teodorski, Marko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters in literature.

Monsters in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

Emerging from darkness, daring to take form and become something more than the Other, monsters stalk these pages, shifting form in true monstrous fashion as they inhabit literature and film, history and parallel communities modelled after our own. They become enmeshed in popular music, run rampant through cities, take androgynous form to rally for their own identities, their own futures, and their own families, and they hold up mirrors while we are caught shattering our sense of Self. Both the past and the future are rich fodder for the evil that monsters do, and from freak show to homunculus to serial killer to cyborg, they remind us that they are never far from sight - and that we cannot look away even if we wish to. Monstrosity from the Inside Out takes as the paradox that monsters are simultaneously impossible and very much a part of what it means to be human.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Teresa Cutler-Broyles and Marko Teodorski

Reflecting the Monster’s Future: The Commodification of Sirens / Marko Teodorski

The Monstrous Hermaphroditic Clone as Backward Progress: A Reading of Ralf Isau’s Thriller Die Galerie der Lügen oder Der Unachtsame Schläfer / Angelika Baier

Postmodern Potencies: Interrogating the Monstrous Sign in Contemporary Society / Janhavi Mittal

The Dark Defender: Dexter and Making Heroes out of Serial Killers / Joanna Ioannidou

‘You Need Us’: Configuring the Family in Post-9/11 Zombie Cinema / Emily Dezurick-Badran

Haunted Communities: The Greek Vampire or the Uncanny at the Core of Nation Construction / Álvaro García Marín

Muslim Monsters/American Heroes: Sleeper Cell and Homeland as the New Face of Fear / Teresa Cutler-Broyles

‘Thing without Form’: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous City / Marta Komsta

A Bad Romance: Lady Gaga and the Return of the Divine Monster / Lise Dilling-Hansen

Here Be Dragons (and Vampires, and Zombies): The Politics of Monstrous Communities / Jack Fennell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-224-6

OCLC:

872976905

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882249 DOI