Willful Monstrosity
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Willful Monstrosity
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Author : Natalie Wilson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-01-17
Willful Monstrosity written by Natalie Wilson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with Social Science categories.
Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race. The analysis, which covers over 70 narratives, is organized around four primary monstrous figures--zombies, vampires, witches and monstrous women. Arguing that the current horror renaissance is populated with willful monsters that subvert prevailing cultural norms and systems of power, the discussion reads horror in relation to topics of particular import in the contemporary moment--rampant sexual violence, unbridled capitalist greed, brutality against people of color, militarism, and the patriarchy's refusal to die. Examining ground-breaking films and television shows such as Get Out, Us, The Babadook, A Quiet Place, Stranger Things, Penny Dreadful, and The Passage, as well as works by key authors like Justin Cronin, Carmen Maria Machado, Helen Oyeyemi, Margo Lanagan, and Jeanette Winterson, this monograph offers a thorough account of the horror landscape and what it says about the 21st century world.
Willful Subjects
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Author : Sara Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-28
Willful Subjects written by Sara Ahmed and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with Social Science categories.
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.
The Cambridge Companion To American Horror
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Author : Stephen Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-04
The Cambridge Companion To American Horror written by Stephen Shapiro and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with Fiction categories.
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Culture Wars And Horror Movies
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Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Culture Wars And Horror Movies written by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
White Terror
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Author : Russell Meeuf
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
White Terror written by Russell Meeuf and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Art categories.
What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgressive ideas transforming loved ones, and children dying when White women eschew traditional maternal roles. Horror film has a long history of radical, political commentary, and Russell Meeuf reveals how racial resentments represented specifically in horror films produced during the Obama era gave rise to the Trump presidency and the Make America Great Again movement. Featuring films such as The Conjuring and Don't Breathe, White Terror explores how motifs of home invasion, exorcism, possession, and hauntings mirror cultural debates around White masculinity, class, religion, socioeconomics, and more. In the vein of Jordan Peele, White Terror exposes how White mainstream fear affects the horror film industry, which in turn cashes in on that fear and draws voters to candidates like Trump.
Critical Approaches To Horror Comic Books
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Author : John Darowski
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Critical Approaches To Horror Comic Books written by John Darowski and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space. Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States. One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.
Spoofing The Vampire
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Author : Simon Bacon
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-10-10
Spoofing The Vampire written by Simon Bacon and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.
Music And Fantasy In The Age Of Berlioz
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Author : Francesca Brittan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-14
Music And Fantasy In The Age Of Berlioz written by Francesca Brittan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-14 with History categories.
An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.
Animals And Race
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Author : Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2023-02-01
Animals And Race written by Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-01 with Social Science categories.
The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.
Female Identity In Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
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Author : Simon Bacon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-10
Female Identity In Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds written by Simon Bacon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics in the second decade of the 21st Century, parallel, purgatorial worlds seem to currently proliferate within popular culture across all media, including television shows and films such as The Handmaids Tale, Us, Watchmen, and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments among many others. These texts depict alternate worlds that express the darkness and violence of our own, arguably none more so than for women. Featuring essays from a broad range of international contributors on topics as wide-ranging as mental health in the Silent Hill franchise and liminal spaces in the work of David Mitchell, this book is an original, timely and hope-filled analysis about overcoming the confines of a patriarchal, fundamentalist world where the female imaginative might just be the last, best hope.