Research Catalog

Title

Speaking of monsters : a teratological anthology / edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
• Browning, John Edgar.

Description

xvi, 326 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Monsters in motion pictures
• Teratology
• Horror films > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index.

Contents

Introduction: on monstrosity and multiculturalism / Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning -- GENERAL THEORIES OF MONSTROSITY. Monster Culture / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Dread, Taboo, and The Thing (1982): Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film / Stephen Prince -- Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings / Noel Carroll -- Our Vampires, Our Neighbors / Ken Gelder -- "Psychological Thriller": Dead of Night (1945), British Film Culture, and the 1940s Horror Cycle / Mark Jancovich -- TERATOLOGIES OF NATIONALITY AND RACE. Monsters in the Literary Traditions of Asia: A Critical Appraisal / Andrew Hock-Soon Ng -- Slayer as Monster in Blood+ (2005-2006) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) / Margaret L. Carter -- "Shapeless Deformity": Monstrosity, Visibility, and Racial Masquerade in Thomas Grattan's Cagot's Hut (1823) / Daniel Novak -- IN BETWEEN FEAR AND DESIRE. Apt Pupil (1998): The Hollywood Nazi-As-Monster Flick / Caroline Joan S. Picart and David Frank -- Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies / Jason C. Bivins -- An Age of Mechanical Destruction: Power Tools and the Monstrous in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Films / Ian Conrich -- 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 -- Seed of Chucky: Transbiology and the Horror Flick / Judith Halberstam -- Man as Menstrual Monster: Dracula and his Uncanny Brides / Barbara Creed -- CRIMINOLOGY, LAW, AND TERATOLOGIES: BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE REEL. Stage Four: Virulency / Lonnie H. Athens -- Profiling the Terrorist as a Mass Murderer / Caroline Joan S. Picart and Cecil E. Greek -- What Makes Stalking Monsters So Monstrous, and How to Survive Them / ?r?t K?m?r -- Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams / Caroline Joan S. Picart -- 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 -- 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 -- Why Is the Tension So High? The Monstrous Feminine in (Post)Modern Slasher Films / Dejan Ognjanovi -- Blood and Bitches: Sexual Politics and the Female Lycanthrope in Young Adult Fiction / June Pulliam -- TERATOLOGIES AND ETHICS. The Queer Ethics of Monstrosity / Patricia MacCormack -- Reopening the Question of the Human and the Animal / Dominick LaCapra -- 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.

Call Number

MFL 12-6296

ISBN

• 9780230114500 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0230114504 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011052891

OCLC

769987246

Title

Speaking of monsters : a teratological anthology / edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index.

Added Author

Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-

Browning, John Edgar.

Research Call Number

MFL 12-6296