Monsters: A Companion

ISBN-13: 9781788746649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Simon Bacon

Opis

What are Monsters? Monsters serve as a warning about something amiss in our surroundings. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet in their respective cultural contexts. Texts range from District 9 to Cleverman to Lady Gaga.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Home - Angela M. Smith: Madness: The Babadook (Kent, 2014) - Monsters of Mental Illness - Simon Bacon: Domestic Abuse: The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020) - Domestic Monsters - Phil Fitzsimmons: Paedophilia: The Nightingale (Kent, 2018) - Monsters of Abuse -Agnieszka Kotwasinìska: Immigrants: The Lure (Smoczyñska, 2015) - Monstrous Outsiders - Society - John Edgar Browning: The Mask: Slasher Cinema (1978-1998) - Teaching the Monster - Lauren Rosewarne: The Cyberbully: Cyberbully (Binamé, 2011) - Monsters of Cyberspace - Anthony Curtis Adler: Lady Gaga: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (1986-present) - Monsters of Celebrity - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas: The Slit-Mouthed Woman: Carved (Shiraishi, 2007) - Monsters of Urban Legend - W. Scott Poole: Melmoth: Melmoth (Perry, 2018) - Monsters of War - Cultural Intersections - Benjamin Baumann: Phi Krasue: Inhuman Kiss (Mongkolsiri, 2019) - Thai Monsters - Inés Ordiz: La habitación del desahogo (2012) - Mexican Monsters - Gail de Vos: Baba Yaga: Hellboy (Mignola, 1997-2004) - Russian Monsters - Partha Mitter: Deumo: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg, 1984) - Monsters of Colonialism - Yasmine Musharbash: The Hairies: Cleverman (Griffen, 2016-2017) - Aboriginal Monsters - Gender - Eddie Falvey: Satan: The Witch (Eggers, 2015) - Patriarchal Monsters - Emily Brick: Warlocks: AHS Apocalypse (Murphy and Falchuk, 2011-present) - Monsters of Masculinity - Craig Ian Mann: She-Wolves: When Animals Dream (Arnby, 2014) - Monsters of Femininity - Daniel Sheppard: Serial Killers: Bates Motel (Ehrin, 2013-2017) - The Queer Monster - Murray Leeder: The Skeleton: Game of Thrones (Benioff, 2011-2019) - Monsters of Death - Partha Mitter: Deumo: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Spielberg, 1984) - Monsters of Colonialism -Yasmine Musharbash: The Hairies: Cleverman (Griffen, 2016-2017) - Aboriginal Monsters - Gender - Eddie Falvey: Satan: The Witch (Eggers, 2015) - Patriarchal Monsters - Emily Brick: Warlocks: AHS Apocalypse (Murphy and Falchuk, 2011-present) - Monsters of Masculinity - Craig Ian Mann: She-Wolves: When Animals Dream (Arnby, 2014) - Monsters of Femininity - Daniel Sheppard: Serial Killers: Bates Motel (Ehrin, 2013-2017) - The Queer Monster - Murray Leeder: The Skeleton: Game of Thrones (Benioff, 2011-2019) - Monsters of Death - Futures - Leah Richards: Clones: Orphan Black (Manson and Fawcett, 2013-2017) - Monsters of Reproduction - Dahlia Schweitzer: The Master: The Strain (del Toro and Hogan, 2014-2017) - Monsters of Contagion - Carl H. Sederholm: The Ecomonster: Megalohydrothalassophobia (Abhorrence, 2018) - Monsters of the Anthropocene -Gerry Canavan: Aliens: District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009) - Monsters of Hybridity - Elana Gomel: Zombie: The Girl with All the Gifts (Carey, 2014) - Posthuman Monsters - Patricia MacCormack: Afterword: Becoming Monstrous and the Monster Becoming: Hannibal (Fuller: 2013-2015) - Index.

O autorze

Simon Bacon has edited books on various subjects including Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014) and Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media (2018), both with Katarzyna Bronk, and Gothic: A Reader (2018), Horror: A Companion (2019), and Transmedia: A Companion (forthcoming). He has published the monographs Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016), Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (2019), and Eco-Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-activist (2020) and is currently working on Invasion of Vampires From Another World: The Cinematic Alien Progeny of War of the Worlds and Dracula.