Monstrous Things : Essays on Ghosts, Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters in popular culture.

Ghosts in literature.

Vampires in literature.

Vampire films--History and criticism.

Vampire films.

Supernatural.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores both popular and obscure pieces about the undead and unholy. Beginning with the author's personal reflections on frightful manifestations in media, chapters interrogate the roots and representations of well-known supernatural entities, and are divided into three sections that contextualize ghosts, vampires and monsters. The section dedicated to ghosts explores spectrality in the work of Herman Melville and Toni Morrison. In the vampires section, the author considers the undead bloodsucker's relationship to antisemitism, suicide, and cinema. The third section includes pieces that explore the otherizations of monsters in films like It Follows, 2017's IT and It Comes at Night. Considerations of monstrosity in the age of global pandemics, terrorism and "stranger danger" are also addressed at length"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction: Monstrous Musings

Act I: Ghosts

The American Ghost Story

Introduction: The Spectral Turn

Doing Justice to Bartleby

Ten Minutes for Seven Letters: Reading Beloved's Epitaph

Act II: Vampires

American Vampires

The Vampire Cinema

Circumcising Dracula

Vampire Suicide

Act III: Monsters

American Monsters

Introduction: A Genealogy of Monster Theory

Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture

What Is IT? Ambient Dread and Modern Paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014), and It Comes at Night (2017)

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew Monstrous Things

ISBN:

9781476647845