Overview

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other. Understanding that the concept of the monster can be a political tool used to dehumanize opponents and a psychological tool that can help us reconsider our beliefs, Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies. Introducing the innovative practice of ""imagining monsters"" as a way to rethink the key organizing principles in our society that we have traditionally taken for granted, the authors explore not only what monsters are but, most importantly, what monsters reveal about us. This cutting-edge collection of chapters challenges us to contradict worldviews, such as the binary of gender, that have organized our thinking for millennia. Showcasing discussions loaded with ontological, ideological, socio-political, and aesthetic implications, the monstrous is rendered uncannily familiar as our own public and domestic socio-political and psycho-emotional realities are subjected to scrutiny. Launching a critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do? The authors show us how the study of monsters and monstrosity is perfectly positioned to answer. Tackling this question from a unique interdisciplinary scope, the research presented in the chapters are interesting reading for a variety of researchers interested in monsters and the monstrous from across sub-disciplines.

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Author:   M. Susanne Schotanus (Progressive Connexions, Netherlands)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.393kg
ISBN:  

9781801170284

ISBN 10:   1801170282
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   20 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Monsters and the Monstrous; M. Susanne Schotanus Imagining Monsters Chapter 1. Malign by Design: Imaginatively Visualising Lovecraft and the Aesthetic of Monstrosity; Gerard Gibson Chapter 2. Racial Terror and the Struggle for Freedom in the HBO series Lovecraft Country; Elena Apostolaki Chapter 3. Media Makes the Monster: Battered and Abused to Monstrous Killer; Melissa Blackie Chapter 4. Talking Monsters; Gerard Gibson, Elena Apostolaki, and Melissa Blackie Gendered Monsters Chapter 5. Femicide on the Frontier: Analysing Motives behind the Femicide Crisis in Ciudad Juàrez; Chloë Isabel Olivo Chapter 6. Dragula and the Expansive Queerness of the Drag Supermonster; Russ Martin Chapter 7. X-Men: The Normative System Disguised as Mutant; Francesca Lopez Chapter 8. The Making of Monstrosity: Exploring the Monster Figure Through the Lens of Gender; Chloë Isabel Olivo, Russ Martin, and Francesca Lopez Domestic Monsters Chapter 9. Mothers, Monsters, & Media: Examining the Parallel Between Motherhood and the Monster; Megan Johnson Chapter 10. Extra-diegesis, Domesticity, and the Uncanny in the Transnational Films of Guillermo del Toro; Woodrow Hood Concluding Thoughts on Monsters and the Monstrous; Woodrow Hood and M. Susanne Schotanus

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M. Susanne Schotanus is the Director of Publications for Progressive Connexions, and series editor of the Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions series. Schotanus’ work is marked by a passion for interdisciplinarity and knowledge production, especially on topics that have traditionally been considered taboo.

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