num_pages: 435
description: No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age. Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented to allay the very terrors that our sleep of reason conjures up. Warner shows how these images and stories, while they may unfold along different lines - scaring, lulling, or making mock - have the strategic simultaneous purpose of both arousing and controlling the underlying fear. In analysis of material long overlooked by cultural critics, historians, and even psychologists, Warner revises our understanding of storytelling in our contemporary culture. She asks us to reconsider the unintended consequences of our age-old, outmoded notions about masculine identity and about racial stereotyping, and warns us of the dangerous, unthinking ways we perpetuate the bogeyman.
language: English
title: No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
titlecomplete: No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
genres: Sociology, History, Psychology, Criticism, Mythology, Horror, Fairy Tales, Folklore, Cultural, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 249
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Katharine Briggs Folklore Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Myth and Fantasy Studies, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux