Monsters and the Monstrous : Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil.
Başlık:
Monsters and the Monstrous : Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil.
Yazar:
Scott, Niall.
ISBN:
9789401204811
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Seri:
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, 38 ; v.v. 38
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, 38
İçerik:
Monsters and the Monstrous -- Contents -- Welcome to an At the Interface Project -- Introduction -- Section One. Monstrous Origins: Histories from the Deep and Transformed Humans -- "Monster Sewers": Experiencing London's Main Drainage System -- Ontological Anxiety Made Flesh: The Zombie in Literature, Film and Culture -- The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety -- Section Two. The Monster and the Political -- Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of "Humanitarian Intervention" in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Kosovo -- Kultur-Terror: The Composite Monster in Nazi Visual Propaganda -- The Anarchist as Monster in Fin-de-Siècle Europe -- Section Three. Familial Monsters -- Family, Race and Citizenship in Disney's Lilo and Stitch -- The Enemy Within: The Child as Terrorist in the Contemporary American Horror Film -- 'Monstrous Mothers' and the Media -- Of Monsters, Masturbators and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange and the Cinematic Serial Killer -- Section Four. Miscellaneous Monsters -- Nobody's Meat: Freedom through Monstrosity in Contemporary British Fiction -- God Hates Us All: Kant, Radical Evil and the Diabolical Monstrous Human in Heavy Metal -- Monstrous/Cute. Notes on the Ambivalent Nature of Cuteness.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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