Format:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781501380075
,
9781501380051
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Part 1: Music, Sound, and Voice -- 1. Frankenstein and Gothic Sonic Fictions / Mark McCutcheon, Athabaska University, Canada -- 2. Musical Directions, Sound, and Song in Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein (1823) / John Higney, Carleton University, Canada -- 3. Musical Moments of Monstrous Transformation in Cinematic Horror / Alexis Luko, Carleton University, Canada -- 4. From Monstrous Horror to Marvelous Fantasy: Extra-Ordinary Vocalities in Cinema of the 1930s / James Deaville, Carleton University, Canada -- 5. Between Enthusiasm and Horror': The Phantomic Music of Helen Keller's Voice / Stefan S. Honisch, University of British Columbia, Canada -- Part 2: Medialities and Psychology -- 6. Monstrous Encounters: The Aesthetic Psychology of Screen Frankensteins / Kevin J. Donnelly, University of Southampton, UK -- 7. Excising the Repulsive: Mysticism and Psychology in Edison's Frankenstein (1910) / Ethan Towns, Carleton University, Canada -- 8. Birth of a 'Miserable Monster': The Theatricality of Male Self-Procreation in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Frankenstein / André Loiselle, St. Thomas University, Canada -- 9. Monsters and Queer Subjectivity Lloyd Whitesell, McGill University, Canada -- 10. Will the Real Count Dracula Please Stand Up? / John Browning, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA Part 3: Gender and Race -- 11. Frankenstein's Frontispiece and the Pornographer: Conceiving Monstrosities / Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK -- 12. Distasteful Allegories/Horrifying Subtexts / Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University, USA -- 13. Hags, Wraiths, Vampires, and Crones: Abject Female Monstrosity in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / Sarah Stang, York University, Canada -- 14. The Horror, the Horror! In Get Out , Peele Shocks Us with the Obvious / Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Georgetown University, USA -- 15. Indigeneity as Monstrosity in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake / Murray Leeder, University of Manitoba, Canada
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501380082
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501380044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501380082
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501380075
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