Monsters in America
Subtitle: our historical obsessions with the hideous and the haunting
By: W. Scott Poole
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Waco, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781602583146
Subjects: Supernatural; Ghouls and ogres; Popular culture; History; Ghosts; Mythical Animals; Monsters
Description: Explains monsters as concoctions of the public imagination, reactions to cultural influences, social change, and historical events; and making use of newspaper accounts, films, and oral histories presents a history of America that illustrates how the monstrous reflects society's fears and shapes historical behavior.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : with a warning to the unsuspecting reader; title: Introduction : the bloody chords of memory; title: Monstrous beginnings; title: Goth Americana; title: Weird science; title: Alien invasions; title: Deviant bodies; title: Haunted houses; title: Undead Americans; title: Epilogue : worse things waiting; title: Filmography; title: Note on sources.