Monstrosity, Identity and Music
Subtitle: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781501380044
Description: "Taking Mary Shelley's novel as its point of departure, this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only survived but thrived over 200 years of media history, in music, film, literature, visual art, and other cultural forms. In studying monstrous figures torn from the deepest and darkest imaginings of the human psyche, the essays in this book deploy the latest analytical approaches, drawn from such fields as musicology, critical race studies, feminist studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. The book interweaves the manifold sounds, sights, and stories of monstrosity into a conversation that sheds light on important social issues, aesthetic trends and cultural concerns that are as alive today as they were when Shelley's landmark novel was published two hundred years ago."--