Creating Cultural Monsters
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Creating Cultural Monsters
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Author : Julie B. Wiest
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Creating Cultural Monsters written by Julie B. Wiest and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Law categories.
Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America explains connections bet
Monster Theory
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Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1996
Monster Theory written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition.
Monsters Among Us
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Author : Dr Leviak B Kelly D DIV
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-11-02
Monsters Among Us written by Dr Leviak B Kelly D DIV and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with categories.
When people think of monsters and creatures of the night, they think supernatural beasts and evil wickedness or they think of television and literary creatures that range from hero through villain. They rarely ever understand the origins of these creatures past the cursory legends, such as Dracula as the historical character of Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler. This book moves beyond this and delves deep into the very core of the legends, It speaks to the very "atoms", "molecules", and delves into the very quanta of the origins. It deals with the actual rise of these creatures in what the general public would view new and novel. In truth, though, it is neither new or novel. The book, through reference to scientific papers, journeys to the "center of the earth" if you will and into the molten core of the legends of these truly sad characters. For as the heat of molten core of the earth melts away flesh, so also the information in this book melts away the error and superstitions. Using only educated and naturalistic thinking, the authors show that supernatural thought processes have shaped theologies of religion and cultural mythologies that were created from viruses and their symptoms. They created monsters. However, this supernatural or religious thinking not only created monsters from their ignorance of the natural world but created it from suffering people. A suffering that was increased because of supernal ideologies that themselves may have been created by a virus. Come with the authors into the past and view the minority report of the origins of monsters, demons, and venerated diseases. See the suffering that the infected suffered without a naturalistic mindset as the ill were cascaded with further suffering by theologies that shaped our global culture for over 6000 years of punishment on the innocent. Enter the microcosmic world of viruses and bacteria that have created, yes created, religious theologies that influenced our cultures with a history of pain for the innocent and guilty alike. When you do this, you will be shocked to find how faith has been injured by beliefs that strive to punish rather than help the suffering. Look at the genuine "Monsters Among Us" if you dare to view the truth.
Religion Culture And The Monstrous
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Author : Joseph P. Laycock
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Religion Culture And The Monstrous written by Joseph P. Laycock and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with Religion categories.
Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters explores the intersection of the emerging field of “monster theory” within religious studies. With case studies from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary valleys of the Himalayas to ghost tours in Savannah, Georgia, the volume examines the variegated nature of the monstrous as well as the cultural functions of monsters in shaping how we see the world and ourselves. In this, the authors constructively assess the state of the two fields of monster theory and religious studies, and propose new directions in how these fields can inform each other. The case studies included illuminate the ways in which monsters reinforce the categories through which a given culture sees the world. At the same time, the volume points to how monsters appear to question, disrupt, or challenge those categories, creating an ‘unsettling’ or surplus of meaning.
Quit Feeding The Monsters
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Author : J. Kevin Cobb
language : en
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Release Date : 2011-05-16
Quit Feeding The Monsters written by J. Kevin Cobb and has been published by Hillcrest Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Business & Economics categories.
While defining problems that undermine an organization is usually easy, a far greater challenge is convincing leaders and managers to stop making those problems even worse. Hence the title, "Quit Feeding the Monsters." The resolutions and applications outlined in this book may seem radical. In fact, Cobb's strategies are based on common sense, established human behavior and what were once considered tried and true principles, too long forgotten. In one personal anecdote after another, gained from hundreds of experiences in the workplace, Cobb amply demonstrates that what is considered conservative and safe is in fact often a sure road to ruin and defeat. In engaging and straightforward language, "Quit Feeding the Monsters" contains the wisdom and tools that really work. With this book, you can learn how to stop nourishing the monsters plaguing your company once and for all.
Monsters Of Film Fiction And Fable
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Author : Lisa Wenger Bro
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-27
Monsters Of Film Fiction And Fable written by Lisa Wenger Bro and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Monsters are a part of every society, and ours is no exception. They are deeply embedded in our history, our mythos, and our culture. However, treating them as simply a facet of children’s stories or escapist entertainment belittles their importance. When examined closely, we see that monsters have always represented the things we fear: that which is different, which we can’t understand, which is dangerous, which is Other. But in many ways, monsters also represent our growing awareness of ourselves and our changing place in a continually shrinking world. Contemporary portrayals of the monstrous often have less to do with what we fear in others than with what we fear about ourselves, what we fear we might be capable of. The nineteen essays in this volume explore the place and function of the monstrous in a variety of media – stories and novels like Baum’s Oz books or Gibson’s Neuromancer; television series and feature films like The Walking Dead or Edward Scissorhands; and myths and legends like Beowulf and The Loch Ness Monster – in order to provide a closer understanding of not just who we are and who we have been, but also who we believe we can be – for better or worse.
Monster Culture In The 21st Century
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Author : Marina Levina
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-05-23
Monster Culture In The 21st Century written by Marina Levina and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Social Science categories.
In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great social, political, and economical uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight, Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar, it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century. The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity in culture.
Monsters Monstrosities And The Monstrous In Culture And Society
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Author : Diego Compagna
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Monsters Monstrosities And The Monstrous In Culture And Society written by Diego Compagna and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Social Science categories.
Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.
Monsters In Society An Interdisciplinary Perspective
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Author : Andrea S. Dauber
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Monsters In Society An Interdisciplinary Perspective written by Andrea S. Dauber and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Social Science categories.
Monster Portraits
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Author : Sofia Samatar
language : en
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
Release Date : 2018
Monster Portraits written by Sofia Samatar and has been published by Rose Metal Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Fiction categories.
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.