Monsters and the monstrous : myths and metaphors of enduring evil
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
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1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations
9781435612051, 9789401204811, 9789042022539, 9781282265523, 9786612265525, 1435612051, 9401204810, 9042022531, 1282265520, 6612265523
182846547
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
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