Willful Monstrosity

Author : Natalie Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476637266

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Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race. The analysis, which covers over 70 narratives, is organized around four primary monstrous figures--zombies, vampires, witches and monstrous women. Arguing that the current horror renaissance is populated with willful monsters that subvert prevailing cultural norms and systems of power, the discussion reads horror in relation to topics of particular import in the contemporary moment--rampant sexual violence, unbridled capitalist greed, brutality against people of color, militarism, and the patriarchy's refusal to die. Examining ground-breaking films and television shows such as Get Out, Us, The Babadook, A Quiet Place, Stranger Things, Penny Dreadful, and The Passage, as well as works by key authors like Justin Cronin, Carmen Maria Machado, Helen Oyeyemi, Margo Lanagan, and Jeanette Winterson, this monograph offers a thorough account of the horror landscape and what it says about the 21st century world.

Author : Natalie Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476673448

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Willful Monstrosity by Natalie Wilson Pdf

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race. The analysis, which covers over 70 narratives, is organized around four primary monstrous figures--zombies, vampires, witches and monstrous women. Arguing that the current horror renaissance is populated with willful monsters that subvert prevailing cultural norms and systems of power, the discussion reads horror in relation to topics of particular import in the contemporary moment--rampant sexual violence, unbridled capitalist greed, brutality against people of color, militarism, and the patriarchy's refusal to die. Examining ground-breaking films and television shows such as Get Out, Us, The Babadook, A Quiet Place, Stranger Things, Penny Dreadful, and The Passage, as well as works by key authors like Justin Cronin, Carmen Maria Machado, Helen Oyeyemi, Margo Lanagan, and Jeanette Winterson, this monograph offers a thorough account of the horror landscape and what it says about the 21st century world.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376101

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Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed Pdf

In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.

Author : Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781316513002

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The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey Pdf

Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.

Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031532788

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Culture Wars and Horror Movies by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández Pdf

Author : Russell Meeuf
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253060396

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White Terror by Russell Meeuf Pdf

What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgressive ideas transforming loved ones, and children dying when White women eschew traditional maternal roles. Horror film has a long history of radical, political commentary, and Russell Meeuf reveals how racial resentments represented specifically in horror films produced during the Obama era gave rise to the Trump presidency and the Make America Great Again movement. Featuring films such as The Conjuring and Don't Breathe, White Terror explores how motifs of home invasion, exorcism, possession, and hauntings mirror cultural debates around White masculinity, class, religion, socioeconomics, and more. In the vein of Jordan Peele, White Terror exposes how White mainstream fear affects the horror film industry, which in turn cashes in on that fear and draws voters to candidates like Trump.

Author : John Darowski,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781000628913

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Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books by John Darowski,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Pdf

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space. Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States. One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004698321

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The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture by Anonim Pdf

The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, spanning representations related to ethnic minorities, bodily monstrosity, environmental anxieties, and haunted technology. The chapters explore both overtly gothic texts and pop culture artifacts that, despite not being widely considered strictly so, rely on gothic strategies and narrative devices.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647395

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Spoofing the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136328

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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz by Francesca Brittan Pdf

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Author : Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628954838

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Animals and Race by Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres Pdf

The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350227040

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Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds by Simon Bacon Pdf

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics in the second decade of the 21st Century, parallel, purgatorial worlds seem to currently proliferate within popular culture across all media, including television shows and films such as The Handmaids Tale, Us, Watchmen, and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments among many others. These texts depict alternate worlds that express the darkness and violence of our own, arguably none more so than for women. Featuring essays from a broad range of international contributors on topics as wide-ranging as mental health in the Silent Hill franchise and liminal spaces in the work of David Mitchell, this book is an original, timely and hope-filled analysis about overcoming the confines of a patriarchal, fundamentalist world where the female imaginative might just be the last, best hope.

Author : Melissa Ames
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813180090

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Small Screen, Big Feels by Melissa Ames Pdf

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010–2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002–present) and The Bachelorette (2003–present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.

Author : Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,,Nina Vanessa Weber,Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650340

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The Vampire Diaries as Postmodern Storytelling by Kimberley McMahon-Coleman,,Nina Vanessa Weber,Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt Pdf

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction. Spanning three decades, TVD has engaged its predominantly teenage audience with storylines around love, friendship, social politics and gender roles. Contributors traverse the franchise's metamorphosis to suit the complex tastes of an early 21st century audience.

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Matthew Edwards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040090046

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Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Matthew Edwards Pdf

This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed. Ranging from the studio’s first horror outing, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) to Hammer’s last contemporary film, Doctor Jekyll (2023), the collection celebrates cult-favourites such as The Quatermass Experiment, the films of Terence Fisher, to overlooked classics such as Captain Clegg or The Mummy franchise. This volume also delves into Hammer’s psychological thrillers, the studio’s venture into TV with Hammer’s House of Horrors, with theoretical frameworks varying from queer studies to postcolonial readings. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, international cinema, film history and horror studies.