Speaking of monsters
Subtitle: a teratological anthology
By: edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780230114500
Subjects: Teratology; Monsters in motion pictures; History and criticism; Horror films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: on monstrosity and multiculturalism / Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning; title: GENERAL THEORIES OF MONSTROSITY. Monster Culture / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: Dread, Taboo, and The Thing (1982): Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film / Stephen Prince; title: Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings / Noel Carroll; title: Our Vampires, Our Neighbors / Ken Gelder; title: "Psychological Thriller": Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle / Mark Jancovich; title: TERATOLOGIES OF NATIONALITY AND RACE. Monsters in the Literary Traditions of Asia: A Critical Appraisal / Andrew Hock-Soon Ng; title: Slayer as Monster in Blood+ (2005-2006) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) / Margaret L. Carter; title: "Shapeless Deformity": Monstrosity, Visibility, and Racial Masquerade in Thomas Grattan's Cagot's Hut (1823) / Daniel Novak; title: IN BETWEEN FEAR AND DESIRE. Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-As-Monster Flick / Caroline Joan S. Picart and David Frank; title: Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies / Jason C. Bivins; title: An Age of Mechanical Destruction: Power Tools and the Monstrous in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Films / Ian Conrich; title: QUEER THEORY AND BOUNDARY CROSSINGS. "Way Too Gay to Be Ignored": The Production and Reception of Queer Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century / Harry Benshoff; title: Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror Flick / Judith Halberstam; title: Man as Menstrual Monster: Dracula and his Uncanny Brides / Barbara Creed; title: CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, AND TERATOLOGIES: BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE REEL. Stage Four: Virulency / Lonnie H. Athens; title: Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer / Caroline Joan S. Picart and Cecil E. Greek; title: What Makes Stalking Monsters So Monstrous, and How to Survive Them / ?r?t K?m?r; title: Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams / Caroline Joan S. Picart; title: THE BIOLOGICAL MONSTROUS AND GENDER: THE HUMAN-ANIMAL-MACHINE DIVIDES. "Nature Abhors Normality": Theories of the Monstrous from Aristotle to The X-Files (1993-2002) / Kathleen Long; title: Monster Spawn of Animal Experimentation in the Early Work of H. G. Wells: On the Containment of Psychopathic Violence as Preliminary to the Onset of the Capacity for Mourning / Laurence A. Rickels; title: Why Is the Tension So High? The Monstrous Feminine in (Post)Modern Slasher Films / Dejan Ognjanovi; title: Blood and Bitches: Sexual Politics and the Female Lycanthrope in Young Adult Fiction / June Pulliam; title: TERATOLOGIES AND ETHICS. The Queer Ethics of Monstrosity / Patricia MacCormack; title: Reopening the Question of the Human and the Animal / Dominick LaCapra; title: Where Reality and Fantasy Meet and Bifurcate: Holocaust Themes in Pan"s Labyrinth (2006), X-Men (2000), and V (1983) / Caroline Joan S. Picart, John Edgar Browning, and Carla Maria Thomas.